A visit to Drew Martinez's collection, Nov. 2014
Nov 18, 2014 11:55:56 GMT -5
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Post by meizzwang on Nov 18, 2014 11:55:56 GMT -5
I had the rare opportunity to visit Drew Martinez's collection last weekend (thanks Drew!), and I was very impressed by how well he is growing his plants. Rob of the Pitcher Plant Project and Josh of Predatory Plants also attended, and as you can imagine, we had some intense, deeply geeked out discussions...well, it was like discussions we have on this forum but only in person and with a cold one in hand, haha!
All of Drew's Sarracenias were gigantic (many of the clones he has from me are bigger and healthier than mine at home), and he's growing his plants in nearly identical conditions to me (he lives about 15 minutes away), so his impressive results are definitely due to his talent. I often hear other growers attribute the health of a plant to the outside environment, not the grower.
The leucophyllas: many of these hurricane creek whites were higher than my waist, and most plants had dozens of growth points per plant. This is the end of the season, so most plants are burnt out by now:
Some white plants:
Dense growth:
Forgot what this is...it has a cultivar name that I recognized:
huge clump of minor okee giants, reminds me of Phil Faulisi's giant plant:
Running out of space:
Some nice hybrid:
This was a surprising hybrid, perhaps a name-able individual. It's Doreen's collosus x Hurricane creek white clone F. I'm hoping to see a lot of new jaw dropping hybrids in the near future (yes, from you fellow reader!), now that growers have access to so many quality genetics:
Isn't this plant cool? I'd have to put my hat sideways to compete with it:
S. x Eva is in the US!
I was really curious about these plants and asked Drew what they were. He told me it was HCW clone F x leuco AJ01 (or something like that). I always wondered what would happen if you crossed a "regular" leucophylla with a snow white one. Note: results will vary depending on what clones you use. The next question that came to mind: is there a way to take "regular" leucophyllas and create var. albas?
same cross:
This thing is WHITE:
Stay tuned for some nepenthes and other CP's!
All of Drew's Sarracenias were gigantic (many of the clones he has from me are bigger and healthier than mine at home), and he's growing his plants in nearly identical conditions to me (he lives about 15 minutes away), so his impressive results are definitely due to his talent. I often hear other growers attribute the health of a plant to the outside environment, not the grower.
The leucophyllas: many of these hurricane creek whites were higher than my waist, and most plants had dozens of growth points per plant. This is the end of the season, so most plants are burnt out by now:
Some white plants:
Dense growth:
Forgot what this is...it has a cultivar name that I recognized:
huge clump of minor okee giants, reminds me of Phil Faulisi's giant plant:
Running out of space:
Some nice hybrid:
This was a surprising hybrid, perhaps a name-able individual. It's Doreen's collosus x Hurricane creek white clone F. I'm hoping to see a lot of new jaw dropping hybrids in the near future (yes, from you fellow reader!), now that growers have access to so many quality genetics:
Isn't this plant cool? I'd have to put my hat sideways to compete with it:
S. x Eva is in the US!
I was really curious about these plants and asked Drew what they were. He told me it was HCW clone F x leuco AJ01 (or something like that). I always wondered what would happen if you crossed a "regular" leucophylla with a snow white one. Note: results will vary depending on what clones you use. The next question that came to mind: is there a way to take "regular" leucophyllas and create var. albas?
same cross:
This thing is WHITE:
Stay tuned for some nepenthes and other CP's!
Here are images of plant progress on 03/16/2023