Post by kiwiearl on Oct 28, 2014 15:03:25 GMT -5
Yeah, what was the first Sarracenia interspecies hybrid you ever created? What motivated you to create one? Just because you could; felt you probably should? Did you have a definite plan in mind? Were you happy with the outcome?
What technique did you use to pollinate? Did you find it exciting when the seed germinated and again to see it come to maturity after the initial growing years? Probably. Did you go on to breed from that to create further more complex hybrids?
And, the big question: do you still have a specimen of that initial project? If so, got some photos of it, then or now? And, out of the seedlings that came from the project, what made you keep the ones you have?
What is your story?
Me? I admit, when I started growing I went the traditional route with a S. x excellens and a S. x catesbaei (see pics below). One being naturally occurring and one not was a factor. The parent plants were flowering at the same time which made things obviously easy and I used a paint brush to pollinate. I created them basically because I could by virtue of having the parents (including my original flava rugelii and a leuc and purp I got from my first interaction with the NZCPS); because I was motivated by the ever present scientific drive; because I'd seen them in Slack's books from the library; and because I imagined them looking beautiful. And, it was exciting. Out of the results I only kept what I felt was the best excellens and two of the best catesbaei. The rest went in the bin.
As I look at them today that early enthusiasm is not quite there any more some how. But, I do think they are nice examples. And, although I do very little of it these days, they did start off hybridising that led to some great results for me. I never went on to cross these F1 clones with anything else. So, they are definitely a sentimental record of an earlier time that I hope to always have as part of my collection.
S. x excellens
S. x catesbaei
What technique did you use to pollinate? Did you find it exciting when the seed germinated and again to see it come to maturity after the initial growing years? Probably. Did you go on to breed from that to create further more complex hybrids?
And, the big question: do you still have a specimen of that initial project? If so, got some photos of it, then or now? And, out of the seedlings that came from the project, what made you keep the ones you have?
What is your story?
Me? I admit, when I started growing I went the traditional route with a S. x excellens and a S. x catesbaei (see pics below). One being naturally occurring and one not was a factor. The parent plants were flowering at the same time which made things obviously easy and I used a paint brush to pollinate. I created them basically because I could by virtue of having the parents (including my original flava rugelii and a leuc and purp I got from my first interaction with the NZCPS); because I was motivated by the ever present scientific drive; because I'd seen them in Slack's books from the library; and because I imagined them looking beautiful. And, it was exciting. Out of the results I only kept what I felt was the best excellens and two of the best catesbaei. The rest went in the bin.
As I look at them today that early enthusiasm is not quite there any more some how. But, I do think they are nice examples. And, although I do very little of it these days, they did start off hybridising that led to some great results for me. I never went on to cross these F1 clones with anything else. So, they are definitely a sentimental record of an earlier time that I hope to always have as part of my collection.
S. x excellens
S. x catesbaei