N. St. Brice

[leilani]

February 2009
By adolescence St. Brice was already standing out among the many plants on the benches ...





February 2010
Still of moderate size St. Brice is pictured with mother ( .. a smooth alata with a large peristiome) and father (N. x Mastersians).







July 2010
Six months can make a world of difference and by July St. Brice towers over father Mastersians .....





June 2011
One year later and St. Brice has continued to thrive and increase in overall proportions while maintaining an unmistakable resemblance to its Victorian ancestor.









Certainly one of the best hybrids I have ever made. I wish I had kept more and often wonder what may have happened to those that left the nursery.

[walterg]

Wow! How did I not notice that when I was taking General Grant on his nursery tour last month? That is spectacular.

[mikuláš]

Looks like the plant hit its stride once it started vining -- hard to believe that less than 2.5 years elapsed between the first and the last photos! I also would not have expected the pitcher size of the offspring to be so much larger than that of either parent (or even both parents combined, in this case).

You've got another winner on your hands

[dvg]

It's interesting to see that the hip location on the N. St. Brice is approximately halfway in between the hip location of the mother's lower hips and the father's higher hip positioning on the pitcher body, as illustrated in the following photo.




That is what one would expect in an ideal hybrid cross, with the offspring sharing traits from both parents with the extremes of those traits being slightly muted down into a vague sort of average mean....but of course, that is not what always manifests in the resulting progeny.

And the size of the N. St. Brice seems to be unexpected...is that only hybrid vigor or the result of a conscious pro-active cultural care program for this the plant?

dvg

[jonathan]

It really is a great cross. Though I see that you are now making second generation crosses from you own plants... cool! You'll definitely get new batches that have a similar specialness, though like with St. Brice, it may take a couple of years to realize that!

How big are those pitchers ?!?
I think I may have sold the one I got from you a wile back... will have to check to see! I hope not

[leilani]

[dvg]

My goodness that plant has grown!

With a name like that, perhaps it is impervious to gluttony and any subsequent pitcher indigestion that might have befallen a less blessed Nepenthes plant. ;D

dvg