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Post by mikuláš on Jun 14, 2012 13:07:07 GMT -10
While the plant recovers from its winter wane and adjusts to the outdoors, I thought I'd post a picture of an upper from this clone (male, right) next to my female from the same grex (left). Quite some variation! The female shows stronger truncata & maxima traits IMO, while the male, I'm not sure what it looks like.
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Post by mikuláš on Jun 8, 2012 10:45:18 GMT -10
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Post by mikuláš on Jun 5, 2012 10:35:32 GMT -10
I have another individual of this grex still in my care, and it, too, is very touchy about being repotted.
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Post by mikuláš on Jun 4, 2012 10:30:22 GMT -10
Keith, could that be the plant I sent you some time ago? If so, it has marvelously well in your care!
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Post by mikuláš on May 1, 2012 10:54:01 GMT -10
I'm going to guess 1. Cordelia 2. Israfel 3. Thirza 4. First Light 5. Barbarian
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Post by mikuláš on Apr 26, 2012 2:04:50 GMT -10
If you want something with dark pitchers, I have a female St. Lidwina with flowers just opening now. St. Hedwig is turning out nicely -- from the photo, it looks like the pitchers show a more veitchii-esque peristome as the plant matures. Any bats in the baramensis yet?
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Post by mikuláš on Apr 20, 2012 14:42:31 GMT -10
The Nile looks great, Sam. Who would have expected such an infundibular pitcher from something with alata as the mother...Did the cross turn out fairly variable? The non-reflexing peristome is a nice feature -- a little wider, and it would be like platychila. I think I had seen the Fredersen lurking in the background of another photo somewhere and immediately wondered if it was a tentaculata hybrid. Nice shape -- and I imagine much more temperature tolerant than the Joker himself. BTW, isn't that Nephthys, not Red Princess? And kudos on the rigidifolia. Hope you get to cross it with something interesting! Or anything lowland
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Post by mikuláš on Apr 17, 2012 2:19:36 GMT -10
I wanted to add a recent observation to this thread: I have a solid-peristome plant (see below for an older pic) that suddenly produced visible striping on its most recent pitcher. I believe the plant is transitioning to intermediate pitchers, and no previous pitchers have shown any sign of striping at all. However, the striping (of which I have no pic, sorry, the pitcher is hidden in the back of the grow chamber) is not as distinct as the striping that my other clone (which is probably of different parentage, boschiana x (spectabilis x veitchii) shows:
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Post by mikuláš on Apr 6, 2012 3:58:05 GMT -10
Thanks, tuuagso. Your dark ones are coming along well, too, Bob. I find that the shape of the pitchers vary on these -- some look like they'll be shaped more like eymaes (the 3 I pictured here), whereas others look like they'll be more elongated & izumiae-like, and a few others are turning out tubby-bottomed. I really need to put mine in bigger pots, but I won't have room for them until the lowlanders go outside next month.
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Post by mikuláš on Mar 30, 2012 13:04:40 GMT -10
A question to the Big Hybridizers and all the homebrewers out there: I've germinated about a dozen batches of seed produced domestically (all but 1 were hybrids), and from this small sample I've noticed that the batches with the highest germination rates are of the following types:
1) species seeds 2) primary hybrids (i.e., Species A x Species B) 3) complex hybrids of the type [Species A x' (Species B x Species C)]
Generally speaking, I've had much lower germination rates from crosses of the type
(Species A x Species B) x (Species C x Species D)
Of course, my sample size is pretty small, but has anyone else noticed this trend? Do complex crosses in which both parents are themselves hybrids produce smaller amounts of viable seed? I limited my observations to seed produced domestically in an attempt to control for the effects of long transit times on viability, which has nothing to do with the inherent viability of the seed upon maturation.
I'm curious to hear about others' experiences, no matter the source of seed, and even if they contradict what I've observed -- actually, I'd be happy to learn that hybrids with two hybrid parents often turn out as fertile as any primary cross.
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Post by mikuláš on Mar 30, 2012 13:03:10 GMT -10
While doing some recent maintenance, I found these little pitchers that look rather promising: First, some different color variants of eymae x (jacquelineae x izumiae) -- many, many thanks to the growers who shared seeds with me. All of these are fully colored-up: And then there's this little-known hybrid from Sam, N. Gloxinia (ventricosa x Predator): The whole plant is suffused with purple, and the pitchers can get dark. Here's a creation from bobh, thorelii-d x Tiveyi. It's like a thorelii with a Tiveyi peristome. Interestingly, the Tiveyi version in this cross is not striped. Grows well as a lowlander & an intermediate. And just because I like it so much, St. Lidwina (splendiana x ramispina): This is near mature size, however. How are everyone else's eymae x (jacq x izum) turning out?
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Post by mikuláš on Mar 5, 2012 13:53:24 GMT -10
Really nice, Sam. Good to see it's putting on some size.
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Post by mikuláš on Jan 31, 2012 11:26:22 GMT -10
I saw a photo of it some time ago, but I can't seem to find it online anymore. From what I remember, the plant looked less striking than I would have imagined -- the dramatic lines of rafflesiana and ovata seem to have been lost.
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Post by mikuláš on Jan 20, 2012 3:03:18 GMT -10
Hmm...it's probably too early to tell. But it is definitely a hybrid with aristolochioides
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Post by mikuláš on Dec 12, 2011 14:22:07 GMT -10
Very cool. Taken from the forum, I presume. Interesting that mirabilis is widespread in the wild, dominant in hybrids, and prominent on the forum.
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