Post by meizzwang on Sept 8, 2017 13:55:27 GMT -5
Here's an absolutely amazing moorei that is one out of approximately 300+ seedlings! some of you would be sad to know that I culled hundreds of plants from that seed batch and only kept the absolute best! If you don't, you end up with a large volume of just okay plants, and there just isn't space for mediocre.
This amazing moorei is actually a cross between 2 different mooreis from the same population in Okaloosa Co, Fl, so it's technically a complex hybrid. Based on what I could see from seedling diversity, the moorei parents were likely F1 hybrids, and the offpsring were all over the place! No two seedlings look alike! To be honest, most of the offspring weren't all that spectacular, only a few stood out of the crowd, and that's why a large population was needed to find something like this.
The lid on the exterior of the trap as well as the area below the mouth can turn very white, much like what we see in S. leucophylla var. alba! The pictures below don't do this clone justice as the red throat becomes more well defined as the traps reach vegetative maturity. I think it may even become more well defined as the traps age (these traps just opened), we'll see.
Unlike many other mooreis, this clone seems to consistently produce both nice summer and fall traps, but the fall traps take the cake! I bet others could get this plant to color up better than I can, but it's looking pretty darn nice even without an artificial suntan.
Grow-wise, unlike it's near look alike(wilkerson's white knight), this plant is incredibly vigorous and easy to cultivate...so far! However, it's been slow to divide, and this is the first year I'll be able to get some small divisions of it. I have been growing it as though it was a leucophylla: it never sits in water to ensure no rhizome rot occurs.
There's still no name for this clone, I've been stumped a bit coming up with one. "improved wilkerson's white knight?" LOL Just kidding, although it certainly does look like one!
Photos taken 9/8/17: Notice the old summer trap in the background and how white it is! The top of the old summer trap burned in our recent heat wave, so I didn't photograph the whole thing:
This amazing moorei is actually a cross between 2 different mooreis from the same population in Okaloosa Co, Fl, so it's technically a complex hybrid. Based on what I could see from seedling diversity, the moorei parents were likely F1 hybrids, and the offpsring were all over the place! No two seedlings look alike! To be honest, most of the offspring weren't all that spectacular, only a few stood out of the crowd, and that's why a large population was needed to find something like this.
The lid on the exterior of the trap as well as the area below the mouth can turn very white, much like what we see in S. leucophylla var. alba! The pictures below don't do this clone justice as the red throat becomes more well defined as the traps reach vegetative maturity. I think it may even become more well defined as the traps age (these traps just opened), we'll see.
Unlike many other mooreis, this clone seems to consistently produce both nice summer and fall traps, but the fall traps take the cake! I bet others could get this plant to color up better than I can, but it's looking pretty darn nice even without an artificial suntan.
Grow-wise, unlike it's near look alike(wilkerson's white knight), this plant is incredibly vigorous and easy to cultivate...so far! However, it's been slow to divide, and this is the first year I'll be able to get some small divisions of it. I have been growing it as though it was a leucophylla: it never sits in water to ensure no rhizome rot occurs.
There's still no name for this clone, I've been stumped a bit coming up with one. "improved wilkerson's white knight?" LOL Just kidding, although it certainly does look like one!
Photos taken 9/8/17: Notice the old summer trap in the background and how white it is! The top of the old summer trap burned in our recent heat wave, so I didn't photograph the whole thing: