Tag Archives: Sarracenia

Pretty Compost

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 3 Comments

In the never ending cleaning and re-potting that I am still doing – another task has been added to the madness. Flower maintenance. There’s quite a few plants that I am not going to use in hybridizing this year.  I have to be selective. (That’s what I tell myself every year.)  That said, I may let the unused plant bloom for a bit, enjoy the flowers … then lop em off.

Below were some defunct flowers that got bent out of shape from my recent re-potting efforts. The stress and movement of re-potting caused the flowers to bend/fall over in all these weird directions.  I was not planning on using this particular S. flava clone in hybridization this year, so I just cut the flower stalks off to (hopefully) help the plant redirect energy to foliar growth.

They can kinda still make for a nice shot, at least.  Such pretty compost material…

Pretty CompostSarracenia flava flowers

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Sarracenia alata bloom

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 9 Comments

Sarracenia alata in bloom – loving the elegant curves of this hawt beauty…
Hope y’all are having a good weekend so far!

Sarracenia alataSarracenia alata bloom

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Show Sarrs

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 3 Comments

Last weekend I had the opportunity to check out the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.  Man, I was really pleased to see some Sarracenia on display! (Thanks to California Carnivores!)   It was pretty neat to see all these people oooh-ing and ahhh-ing over them! Yes, they are fascinating plants indeed (that’s why I’m addicted.) I really hope to see more carnivores involved in future displays.

Now most Sarracenia at this point in the year would be dormant, or just emerging from dormancy (as are my plants…)  The plants below got a jump on the season by starting off early in a greenhouse.  Anyway, for those of you interested – I’ll be posting the rest of the SF Flower and Garden Show 2012 photos a little later. For now, here’s a look at the a Sarrs from the show!

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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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March Madness: Blooms!

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

MARCH MADNESS IS OFFICIALLY HERE! Blooms have finally opened! Here are the first 3 flowers that have opened – photographed yesterday. There are many more flowers following very close behind!  The deluge of Sarracenia blooming madness has now begun!  BRING IT ON!

Sarracenia flava x “willisii” (Triffid Park clone)

Sarracenia (flava x “willisii” -Triffid Park clone) x leucophylla “Juju Lips”

Sarracenia flava var. flava

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2012: Opening Day

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 1 Comment

The first two pitchers of 2012 have inflated and opened up! (Although, I’m still waiting for the 2012 opening day of the SF Giants… but anyway, that’s beside the point…) The below pitchers opened up sometime last week – I haven’t been to the greenhouse to be able be there as they cracked open, but these two were the first to do their thing.  It’s just a couple pitchers for now, but the deluge of pitchers (and SF Giant’s pitchers…) to soon follow! Bring it on!!!

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


Sarracenia ‘Nadine’

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These Buds for You

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 5 Comments

A few Sarracenia buds for your Sunday… Enjoy!

Sarracenia (flava x willisii-Triffid Park) x leucophylla "Juju Lips"Sarracenia (flava x willisii, Triffid Park) x leucophylla “Juju Lips”

Sarracenia "Green Monster"
Sarracenia “Green Monster”

Sarracenia 'Alucard' "Prince of Darkness"
Sarracenia ‘Alucard’ – “Prince of Darkness”, a Phil Faulisi Select Clone

Sarracenia leucophylla - AF
Sarracenia leucophylla – Anthocyanin Free

Sarracenia willisii x flava var. cuprea
Sarracenia willisii x flava var. cuprea – California Carnivores

Sarracenia courtii x 'Adrian Slack' select clone
Sarracenia courtii x ‘Adrian Slack’

Sarracenia 'Abandoned Hope'
Sarracenia ‘Abandoned Hope’

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Awww Psitt!!

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 10 Comments

So, as I am organizing and putting plants together by their species in the new grow areas, I found one interesting form of S. psittacina, or psitt (pronounced like “sit”), that I forgot I had.   I find the S. psittacina species pretty interesting as they are unlike their other Sarracenia counterparts — the psitt species have a bulbous globular shaped head where other Sarracenia exhibit the trumpet/tuba/french horn appearance.

Eh, anyways — what I like about this particular S. pisttacina I recently uncovered from the jumbled mess is the large semi-half-circular wing-ridge it has (called an ala).  They are an interesting species for sure and I’m finding that I am appreciating psitts a little more these days! As with other Sarracenia, there’s a lot of variation within the species!  I hope to ramp up in my ps(h)itty psitt department in the coming growing seasons.

Anyway… check out this piece of psitt…


Sarracenia psittacina – Allanton – Bay County, FL


Sarracenia psittacina – Allanton – Bay County, FL

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Leuco’s New Home

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Sarracenia Dude| 3 Comments

Some more updates from the repottin’ madness!    Oh, it never ends, but I am enjoying it! One tray at a time!

I received a few select clones of S. leucophylla a while back from Dr. Travis H. Wyman — and they were getting a bit cramped in their current situation – so I decided that it was time to move them to a larger crib!

I am prepared the mini bog, filling it with some fresh media for the leuco’s!  I am using a sand/peat mixture.

Here’s one container of the plants – gettin’ kind of cramped in there as you can see! That’s a large pot of about 2 or 3 plants.

Here’s a larger container of the same S. leucophylla — cramped and in need of a good cleaning.  I just kind of let the containers run amok last year…

Here’s one plant.  There I go with the nitrile gloves again! (Use protection folks… it’s worth it…)  And see that mossy lookin’ crap?  I have no idea what it is – but one thing I know — it’s annoying as hell.  My homie Mike Wang calls it “bitch weed”, cuz it really is a bitch to remove!  I let it kind of get overgrown last year but this year I am doing my best to keep it clean.

Mini bogs now planted. True, it does not look like much now, but I am giving them room to grow — and believe me, they WILL grow!  I am looking forward to these bins filling up with some leucophylla awesomeness this coming year!

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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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