S. alabamensis ICPS AL0003 SUPER YELLOW!!!!
Nov 7, 2023 14:29:58 GMT -5
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Post by meizzwang on Nov 7, 2023 14:29:58 GMT -5
If there was ever a yellow looker, this is the one! Holy Sha-Moley yongki dori? Okay, now I'm just making up words that are trying to express excitement....
So here's the story: back in the day, a bunch of us were complaining that we didn't have access to alabemensis except some very ugly tissue culture clone that helped give the species "the ugliest of all Sarracenia" designation by Jeremiah Harris. Barry Rice at the time said "oh ya, well watch this" and through the ICPS, he lawfully acquired seeds from all of these sites that we'll never see, hear, or ever think of ever again, grew them out at UC Davis and said "alright, let's see if you complainers, including Mike Wang, can keep these things alive. And Shut the front DOOR!!!"
Truth be told, he didn't actually say that or anything stated in this thread....in fact, that was all in my head and just a figment of my imagination. Barry was probably crossing his fingers and hoping that all that effort he went through would pan out in the long haul. It's not easy convincing stewards of the sites who are proecting them to collect seeds and pass them out to us fellow degenerate growers, but he skillfully did! He then went on to grow them out for a few years and offered tons of plants for sale to the public.
Did it pan out? Yes and no. Yes because we still have clones in circulation, and they're growing strong! No because Mike Wang and no other private collector ever had a chance to acquire many different clones from the same site. It also was offered to members, many of which were novice growers and they could only acquire a limited number of plants each to make it fair to others. THis means that 99+% of the original plants that were distributed no longer exist because they didn't go to growers who had both the experience and/or desire to keep them going decades later.
It would have been ideal to make back up clones of every single plant in the population prior to releasing them, and housing the main population under proven, stable care to ensure their long term survival. The past is the past, but I was just a kid at the time and was too shy at the time to speak up, was more interested in growing than politics.
Anyways, this clone is called S. alabamensis ICPS AL0003 because giving out even the most vague location data or giving people an idea that they still exist today while giving hints on where they can be found can drum up danger to the wild populations. Sad but true and I'm happy with the name designation, way too many sites in the wild have been irreversibly damaged after they became public knowledge.
Anyways, everyone is chasing flavas for that goldie yellow coloration, but they really should be looking the other way and checking out these albamensis, of course only if they're in California. Yes, that's frustrating to all of us but a topic for another time. S. alabamensis ICPS AL0003, pics taken 10/21/23:
LORD have mercy!
So here's the story: back in the day, a bunch of us were complaining that we didn't have access to alabemensis except some very ugly tissue culture clone that helped give the species "the ugliest of all Sarracenia" designation by Jeremiah Harris. Barry Rice at the time said "oh ya, well watch this" and through the ICPS, he lawfully acquired seeds from all of these sites that we'll never see, hear, or ever think of ever again, grew them out at UC Davis and said "alright, let's see if you complainers, including Mike Wang, can keep these things alive. And Shut the front DOOR!!!"
Truth be told, he didn't actually say that or anything stated in this thread....in fact, that was all in my head and just a figment of my imagination. Barry was probably crossing his fingers and hoping that all that effort he went through would pan out in the long haul. It's not easy convincing stewards of the sites who are proecting them to collect seeds and pass them out to us fellow degenerate growers, but he skillfully did! He then went on to grow them out for a few years and offered tons of plants for sale to the public.
Did it pan out? Yes and no. Yes because we still have clones in circulation, and they're growing strong! No because Mike Wang and no other private collector ever had a chance to acquire many different clones from the same site. It also was offered to members, many of which were novice growers and they could only acquire a limited number of plants each to make it fair to others. THis means that 99+% of the original plants that were distributed no longer exist because they didn't go to growers who had both the experience and/or desire to keep them going decades later.
It would have been ideal to make back up clones of every single plant in the population prior to releasing them, and housing the main population under proven, stable care to ensure their long term survival. The past is the past, but I was just a kid at the time and was too shy at the time to speak up, was more interested in growing than politics.
Anyways, this clone is called S. alabamensis ICPS AL0003 because giving out even the most vague location data or giving people an idea that they still exist today while giving hints on where they can be found can drum up danger to the wild populations. Sad but true and I'm happy with the name designation, way too many sites in the wild have been irreversibly damaged after they became public knowledge.
Anyways, everyone is chasing flavas for that goldie yellow coloration, but they really should be looking the other way and checking out these albamensis, of course only if they're in California. Yes, that's frustrating to all of us but a topic for another time. S. alabamensis ICPS AL0003, pics taken 10/21/23:
LORD have mercy!