Here’s another one with those hidden sleeper lidless genetics. (Hopefully.) A few years ago I did a pairing of S. ‘Chaos’ and S. flava – lidless giant. This was a mash-up of two plants with unique definitive characteristics: S. ‘Chaos’ with its ominous angular peristome combined with the strange but sophisticatedly simplified S. FLG. (FLG for Flava Lidless Giant). Parent photos are below for context. The above gallery features … Read More
Purpurea Project with Jerry Addington
Back in Jun 2023, my good friend Kinjie Coe and I went to visit Jerry Addington. In this short video, Jerry talks a little about his S. purpurea project: crossing a veinless with a heterophylla – and then crossing those.
S. “Sun Piercer”
A plant that has been catching my eye in recent season is a moorei that I’m calling S. “Sun Piercer” as a working name. I don’t remember exactly where the seed came from or who did the cross. The seed was received as S. leucophylla 30A x flava “Goldie” from a few years ago. It is turning out to be a rather nice moorei featuring golden undertones, an angular … Read More
Cloudflow 2023
Another season lies before us. As we head into 2024, here is a look back at a few clips of backyard cloudflows from 2023. Happy Growing!
Lidless Moorei: S. ‘Bris’ x flava lidless giant
More lidless-ness? Yes please. Here are some clips and photos of the lidless S. moorei seedlings, resulting from a primary cross of two lidless plants: S. leucophylla ‘Bris’ x flava “lidless giant”. The cross was done in 2021. Pollination in May, seed harvested in September, then germinated in December of that year. Out of the five seeds, three sprouted and two survived. This past season, seedlings grew outside for … Read More
Curious Catesbaei Encounters of the Lidless Kind
The seedlings are growing and it has been remarkable to witness the growth and evolution of these babies. It’s really exciting to see how these are shaping up. These are a few photos to document the growth and journey of a 2022 selfing of S. purpurea ssp. venosa var. montana x flava var. ornata – lidless. Here are some seedlings from the batch. (An update to this post…)
Clear Edge
A while back, Jerry Addington gifted me with some of the first divisions of the famed white purps. (Supposedly resulting from a cross between two regular looking S. purpurea plants.) I’ve been growing the various clones outdoors and after a couple of seasons, they do still color up quite beautifully. I noticed something interesting the other day that I haven’t really observed on other plants. There is a subtle … Read More
Lidless S. x Catesbaei
The evolution of an intangible concept into something tactile is fascinating. Sarracenia provide a wonderful canvas to observe the growth and advancement of something that may have started out in reverie. This is an update on one of those daydreams. I had this strange notion and in 2016 was able to take the first successful steps on this journey. I did a cross between S. purpurea ssp. venosa var. … Read More