{"id":840,"date":"2010-12-18T01:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:56:13","slug":"some-nice-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2010\/12\/some-nice-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Nice Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salutations,<br \/>\nMan, it&#8217;s been pretty busy &#8211; I would imagine this is so for ALL of us in this holiday season.\u00a0\u00a0 My cube day job especially has been pretty busy &#8211;\u00a0 resulting in my recent silence here on the blog.\u00a0 Honestly, I&#8217;d rather NOT have these mini hiatuses but would rather share Sarracenia goodness with everyone. All day. Every day. \u00a0 These past couple of weeks have\u00a0 most certainly has been quite the flurry of activity.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just wanted to say a very special thank you to fellow blogger James at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soenyun.com\/Blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lost in the Landscape<\/a>!\u00a0 (If you haven&#8217;t done so, check his blog!) He had sent me a few things that really added some awesomeness in my not-so awesome past couple of weeks&#8230;\u00a0 (Thanks James, you ROCK!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5122\/5270191275_fdd63b54be_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"640\" \/>[Some seeds that will have some star potential!\u00a0 It may not look like  much now, but I wanted to start documenting their growth.\u00a0 A couple  years later I&#8217;ll probably refer back to this post just to show how these  plants started.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5270190977_246c7134c8_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n[Sarracenia division, unconfirmed ID at this point, but we&#8217;re pretty sure that it is a S. &#8216;Judith Hindle&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5006\/5268304788_6c5b876f69_z.jpg\" alt=\"Surprise\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n[I&#8217;m really excited about this one- Seedlings of S. x melanorhoda, Triffid Park x purpurea ssp. veonsa v. burkii f. luteola. Yes! I will be using these for breeding in the anthocyanin free line. They have that recessive antho free gene in them now!]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5209\/5267695733_2d48f5fc3e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/>[I potted them up a couple of nights ago right when I got home.\u00a0 It was about 10pm, and dark and cold out, but I still did it! Brrr!]<\/p>\n<p><em>**Thanks again James!**<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salutations, Man, it&#8217;s been pretty busy &#8211; I would imagine this is so for ALL of us in this holiday season.\u00a0\u00a0 My cube day job especially has been pretty busy &#8211;\u00a0 resulting in my recent silence here on the blog.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/2010\/12\/some-nice-surprises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,23,54,61,102,114,130,139,162,199],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anthocyanin-free","tag-carnivorous-plant","tag-garden","tag-growing-from-seed","tag-north-american-pitcher-plant","tag-pitcher-plant","tag-sarracenia","tag-sarracenia-hybrid","tag-seedling","tag-thank-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thepitcherplantproject.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}