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“Prince of Darkness” Rising

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

Finally. A little bit of color!  (I know it’s not much color, it’s barely any at all.) Now mind you, the colors would be so much more intense under direct sun, but it’s finally nice to see at least … a little bit of color.  It *should* be a bloody deep crimson red by now. Being that it’s a tall plant, it’s closer to the roof so it’s getting more light than the rest of collection.  Oh, my lighting woes. (Can’t wait to get that fixed — soon! Oh well, that’s life.)

Sarracenia “Prince of Darnkness” is a select clone of S. ‘Alucard’, which was born of a crossing between a heavy deep red select S. flava var. rubricorpora and S. ‘Royal Ruby’. Now keep in mind that the grex is registered. (grex: -noun, a group of plants that has arisen from the same hybrid parent group – via dictionary.com)  This particular clone is one of Phil Faulisi’s select plants out of that cross.

Out of my current dark situation, the “Prince of Darkness” rises…

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Sarracenia "Prince of Darkness"
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”

Sarracenia "Prince of Darkness"
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”

Sarracenia "Prince of Darkness"
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”

Sarracenia "Prince of Darkness"Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”

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Sarracenia ‘Wilkeron’s Red’ x ‘Leah Wilkerson’

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

A cross between to stunning plants – here’s a black and white of Wilkerson’s Red x Leah Wilkerson. This is the plants first pitcher of the season. The cross was done by Brooks Garcia.  Happy Friday!

Sarracenia 'Wilkersons Red' x 'Leah Wilkerson'
Sarracenia ‘Wilkeron’s Red’ x ‘Leah Wilkerson’

Sarracenia 'Wilkersons Red' x 'Leah Wilkerson'
Sarracenia ‘Wilkeron’s Red’ x ‘Leah Wilkerson’

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Open

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 2 Comments

Now that spring is here, many of the plants are jumping out off dormancy, throwing up so many flower buds, as well as opening up new pitchers.   Gotta love the season! Here’s a quick shot of a pitcher opening (S. ‘Love Bug’ x flava var. rubricorpora) up to start off your week. Hope everyone’s having a good start to the week!

Sarracenia 'Love Bug' x flava var. rubricorporaSarracenia ‘Love Bug’ x flava var. rubricorpora, new pitcher opening

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Grow On!

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

Sarracenia hybrid – unknown parentage; new growth jumpin’!

A few weeks ago I trimmed a lot of the plants back – that was stage 1 of my clean up project after the move.  Stage two is repotting and divisions. (Which, seemingly is taking F O R E V E R.)  You can see how the new growth of this year is shooting up and the plant is deforming the pot!  This is a multi crown 3 or 4 year old young plant that’s flowering this year.  I grew this plant from seed that I obtained a while back from Karen Oudean – the exact parentage is unknown, but I am assuming that it has a flava/alata/rubra-ish influence.  Grow on, lil’ dude — grow on!

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Hopeful Abandoned Hope

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 5 Comments

Abandoned HopeSarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’ – With a hopeful flower bud.

Busy day today in the greenhouse. I’m still doing a lot of repotting. HELLA repotting.  Couldn’t help but take a quick snapshot of S. ‘Abandoned Hope’ as I was getting ready to repot it. Just pulled it out of the pot and started to take some of the old media off… I fear that my repotting is starting to run a little behind as a lot of the plants are throwin’ up buds already.  I am tryin’ to get to them all before they really start to explode into growth.

I have some high hopes for that bud and the hybrids that could possibly come from it! I’m quite hopeful for some interesting stuff, that’s for sure.

By the way — yes, I am wearing some disposable nitrile gloves.  It is very true that I do like to get duh-duh-duh-DIRTY – but it is also very important to have good hygiene while working with potting media. It’s no fun to get stuff like this.   OK, so I don’t always wear gloves but am always sure to wash hands after working. I’m also careful to address any cuts/wounds that happen while working with plants/media.

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Long Lid

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 4 Comments

Found this one plant on my recent trimming project…. Back in September 2010 I wrote about a cross I did with Sarracenia “Starry Night” and Sarracenia ‘Hummers Hammerhead’  here. (Check that link out to see some of the sibling crosses…) One of the plants turned out with a clear S. Hummers Hammerhead influence… Just an example of the variation that comes when growing from seed.


Sarracenia “Starry Night”x ‘ Hummers Hammerhead’

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Cinnamon and Fire

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

Oh, more interesting things are being found here and there! Here’s a couple young plants from a cross of  Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” and Sarracenia flava “Cinnamon Tube”; this particular cross was done by my friend Wes Buckner a few years ago.  He sent me some seeds from this cross and they’re turning out pretty nice.  By the way, S. flava “Cinnamon Tube” is a cross between flava var. rubricorpora x flava var. cuprea.   Bear in mind the photos of the young plants below are last year’s pitchers that I left from the trimdown;  they’re tell-tale signs of what is to come in the future.  Last year I had the seedlings growing somewhat under the deck, so they didn’t get as long of a photoperiod as I would of liked to give them.  They would of had colors that were more intense if under sun all day. Anyway, the plants are dormant and will wake up in the coming month or two and I’m really looking forward to that.

Again, note the variation between the different siblings.  There’s more siblings that I’ve trimmed back and I’m looking forward to what they’ll show off in the coming season!

Meet the parents: 

left: Sarracenia flava “Cinnamon Tube”
right: Sarracenia “Savanna Fire”

Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”

Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”

Sarracenia “Savanna Fire” x flava “Cinnamon Tube”

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Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 2 Comments

Part of the fun of diving into the fray of trimming and cleaning is finding things that I haven’t seen in a while, or at times — didn’t even know about.  There’s so many plants hiding between this and that, and with the seedling babies – heck, I don’t even know what’s going on sometimes. Here’s a couple sibling young plants that my friend Wes Buckner did between Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” (a moorei, or a leucophylla / flava Sarracenia hybrid) and a Sarracenia chelsonii (a Sarracenia purpurea/rubra hybrid).  He sent me these seeds about 3 years ago, I think.  You can see the variation between the two and that’s what makes Sarracenia breeding for me so fascinating. You never quite know what you’ll get.  One is producing nice upright veined and ruffled pitchers drawing influence from S. chelsonii. The other plant (that should produce some larger pitchers this coming year, and not as quite as large as it’s sibling yet)  has a little bit more of the moorei influence and what I hope to be a consistent vertical throat splotch. The latter reminds me a little bit of some cat’s eyes…

Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii

Sarracenia “Bud Wilkerson” x chelsonii

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Surprise: S. (leucophylla x oreophila) Karen Oudean Clone x purpurea ssp. venosa

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

As I go thorough each bench and tray, it’s kind of cool finding things that I forgot about. It’s as if surprises await me as I go through and do my trimming duties.  The other day I was trimming through trays and found a cross I did a few years ago.  This is S. (leucophylla x oreophila), Karen Oudean Clone x purpurea ssp. venosa.


Sarracenia (leucophylla x oreophila) Karen Oudean Clone x purpurea ssp. venosa

It’s been a while since I’ve seen some of these seedlings, but was pleasantly surprised to see how some were turning out.  Most of the pitchers were already going crisp but the horizontal line in the throat was a consistent feature in the other pitchers of this plant. A nice surprise to find, and I am really looking forward to seeing how this plant will be at full maturity. The rhizome is looking a bit swollen, so I hope that I can get some flowers when it comes time…

Oh boy, can’t wait to see what other surprises await me in the trimming fray!

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Sarracenia readii x moorei – Select Clone

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Sarracenia Dude| 5 Comments

Earlier this year I got a recent division of S. readii x moorei – select. This was created by Phil Faulisi – and I’m really happy that it threw up some recent late pitchers.  I can’t wait to see the large pitchers it will throw up next year. I’ve seen some established divisions of this plant with impressive pitchers.

S. readii is a rubra/leucophylla hybrid.  S. moorei is a flava/leucophylla hybrid.  The late pitchers on this plant are quite a treat this late in the season, thanks to the S. leucophylla influence which sends up nice pitchers in the fall.  A few other plants in the garden have already been reduced to phyllodia. (Phyllodia are those non carnivorous leaves – they catch sun rays for the photosynthesis action…)

Ahh, I’m going to enjoy this cuz dormancy is right around the corner… :)

Sarracenia readii x moorei, select clone[Sarracenia readii x moorei - select clone]

 

Sarracenia readii x moorei, select clone[Sarracenia readii x moorei - select clone]

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