S. flava var. atropurpurea 2AT clone#2 Okaloosa Co, FL
Apr 19, 2019 17:32:52 GMT -5
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Post by meizzwang on Apr 19, 2019 17:32:52 GMT -5
From my experience, S. flava var. atropurpurea from Okaloosa Co, FL doesn't breed true, and you really have to hunt though hundreds (but better yet thousands) of seedlings before you find special individuals worth keeping and cloning. I think I grew out over 500 seedlings from multiple atropurpurea parents and ended up with maybe a dozen select individuals at the end. This helps explain their rarity and difficultly to come by: they're uncommon from a genetic standpoint! That can all change in the next 10-20 years with highly selective breeding and massive grow outs, but this is where we are right now. In large grow-outs, you'll get mostly mutty looking atros with strange, somewhat watered down red colors, lightly colored atros that consistently color up but aren't very red, rugeliis, ornatas, very hard to color up atros, and then a few gems like the plant below!
Much like rubricorporas, it can sometimes be tricky to get red color forms to perform, even if they color up relatively easily! More often than not, these plants are greenish right when the traps open and require that the traps age before they turn color.
S. flava var. atropurpurea 2AT clone#2 is kinda like Waccamaw in the sense that the traps open up mostly red to begin with, and as the plant ages, the colors become more intense. The lid is still greenish with atro 2AT clone#2 when the traps are very young, but from observations of last year's traps, it turned solid red from head to toe once fully developed.
From one clone to the next, there seems to be a genetic component to ease by which some of these plants color up, but of course, you have to also have the right environmental conditions for that to happen. I've had S. Waccamaw produce green traps many times even though it colors up very easily! Same can be said about atro 2AT clone#2: last year, one of the divisions only produced green pitchers, but probably because it was divided and had its leaves chopped off.
Interestingly, the division pictured below was recently divided this winter! S. flava var. atropurpurea 2AT clone#2 Okaloosa Co, FL, photos taken 4/17/19:
Almost looks like a rubricorpora at this stage, but those lids turn solid red after they age:
Pictures below were taken 2 days later on 4/19/19(today):
Much like rubricorporas, it can sometimes be tricky to get red color forms to perform, even if they color up relatively easily! More often than not, these plants are greenish right when the traps open and require that the traps age before they turn color.
S. flava var. atropurpurea 2AT clone#2 is kinda like Waccamaw in the sense that the traps open up mostly red to begin with, and as the plant ages, the colors become more intense. The lid is still greenish with atro 2AT clone#2 when the traps are very young, but from observations of last year's traps, it turned solid red from head to toe once fully developed.
From one clone to the next, there seems to be a genetic component to ease by which some of these plants color up, but of course, you have to also have the right environmental conditions for that to happen. I've had S. Waccamaw produce green traps many times even though it colors up very easily! Same can be said about atro 2AT clone#2: last year, one of the divisions only produced green pitchers, but probably because it was divided and had its leaves chopped off.
Interestingly, the division pictured below was recently divided this winter! S. flava var. atropurpurea 2AT clone#2 Okaloosa Co, FL, photos taken 4/17/19:
Almost looks like a rubricorpora at this stage, but those lids turn solid red after they age:
Pictures below were taken 2 days later on 4/19/19(today):