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Post by stevebooth on Sept 13, 2017 20:05:10 GMT
This is a seed grown S. X exornata 'Peaches' x S. flava atropurpurea ex Donald Schnell, planted December 2012 with seed sourced from Insektenfang. It's not had the best of conditions so far but I shall pamper it a little next year. |
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 16, 2017 11:00:35 GMT
These seeds were sold to me as S. X exornata 'Peaches' x 'Claret' however what I am seeing leads me to question this. It's a source of concern that seeds are being sold that aren't what they purport to be, it could be an honest mistake of course. However the plant and its siblings, whilst looking very different, are nice enough I will grow them out and see what develops. Cheers Steve |
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 16, 2017 11:09:17 GMT
Siblings of S. X exornata 'Peaches' x 'Claret' above, one of which looks like it's being used to some advantage Cheers Steve Attachments:
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 16, 2017 11:32:37 GMT
An anthocyanin free S. leucophylla x anthocyanin free X 'courtii' which looks better than the pictures show especially in sunlight, which we are a bit short of at the moment. Cheers Steve |
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Post by stevebooth on Sept 16, 2017 11:46:36 GMT
I seem to have a large number of these S. ''Pink Thing' x S. alata black tube seedlings, seeds sourced from Insektenfang, I expect them to change somewhat in the next couple of years. Cheers Steve |
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Post by stevebooth on Dec 28, 2019 14:09:10 GMT
Whilst boiling the turkey bones (not sure whether I’m making a soup or a stock yet) I thought I would traverse the estate and see what was occurring. To my chagrin I find that given a bit of warmth, Fred’s favourite avian is celebrating Xmas in a very spring like fashion, seedlings and soil thrown everywhere with gay abandon, another imbroglio to be sorted, or more likely yet another tray that will be labelled unknown hybrids.  |
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Post by dvg on Dec 28, 2019 19:40:07 GMT
Steve, i liked your last post so much, it inspired this little ditty in me. Hopefully, you were able to salvage the bulk of your seedlings. Steve swung open the gate, to walk his estate,
whilst water simmered and roiled, the turkey bones boiled.
But with chagrin he soon found, an awkward mess on the ground;
blackbirds with gay abandon, had tossed named seedlings at random.
Now Steve hopes to avoid, being left quite annoyed,
naming another tray "NOID", his labels left - nulled and void.
dvg |
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Post by dvg on Dec 30, 2019 20:24:18 GMT
Steve were you able to sort out the blackbird's mess, to save and relabel most of your seedlings?
Just curious what size the seedlings had grown to, before they were plucked from the soil.
Maybe with your warmer weather, the blackbirds were hunting for the more active slugs slinking around.
dvg
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Post by stevebooth on Jan 1, 2020 15:19:03 GMT
Hi Doug
It looked like an opportunist sort of attack, moss and peat pulled from three pots and two trays, the deepest depression being about 2”. The bird was looking for something to eat probably. Seedlings were 2-3” tall and hadn’t got any, ‘proper’ defining features so I couldn’t designate what was what with any authority, so simply poked them into another tray filled with peat and I’ll put them with all the other waifs and strays. They may well get pulled out again as the weather is quite clement at the moment and there are a lot of hungry birds about, they do tend to repeat the process if they find something on the initial foray. I took some photos and may upload them once I get back on a computer that does what I ask it to.
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Post by dvg on Jan 1, 2020 23:47:57 GMT
Steve, that must be frustrating to have the birds mess up your breeding projects.
Would it be possible for you to put up some netting or mesh, to protect your seedlings until they can get to a larger size?
dvg
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Post by dvg on Aug 14, 2020 19:15:03 GMT
Steve, anything catching your eye this summer, with this lot?
Did any clones surprise you with changes in pitcher color or patterning, as they matured?
Cheers,
Doug
dvg
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Post by stevebooth on Aug 17, 2020 14:39:38 GMT
Hi Doug
Tis the season for it - there are quite a few nice clones with leocophylla in them are sending out colorfully and well marked pitchers and the red in the flava and purpurea species and their hybrids are nice this year due to the spasmodically scorching weather we have had. There are some nice mooreis and mitchelliana that are coming good too. The 'Juthatip Sopers'are their usual late summer colourful eye-catching selves.
Just for you as I know you like this sort of info, one of my one pitcher, per year, per growth point, plants, a full red tube, has just within the last week started growth of its first pitcher and possibly only one of the year. It has never flowered and no matter how you plant it, water it or feed it, it never does anything other than one late pitcher per year per growth point. I would throw it out, but its fairly nice and secretly I want it to flower and self it so I can get some even more recalcitrant plants. Not sure what it is as it hasn't had a label for years, but it was seed grown, it is a solid one colour 12-16" high, red tube plant, and must be a hybrid of some sort but what hybrid would give it these characteristics I cant fathom.
Cheers
Steve
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not here it isn't