Sweet Plant Love - 2017 Cross - 5 Years Later 2022

This link has more details of what I did back then to make this cross. aka the Sweet Plant Love post.

I cross the Waccamaw (father) to the Rugelii (mother). I performed the crosses both ways, but the seeds of the Waccamaw failed. But I repeat stuff here:

2017 Partial Plant Collection Grown Inside an Apartment. R = Rugelii. W = Waccamaw. Flowers are circled. Cross pollinated sweet plant love~

 "Last year (2017) I cross pollinated one of my most vigorous plants, a Sarracenia flava var rugelii (purchased from Meadowview Biological Research Station on March 19, 2016) with a Sarracenia flava var atropurpurea variety Waccamaw (purchased from Meizzwang on February 15, 2017). I bought the Waccamaw plant as a flowering size plant, and for the cost, it came with a flower. Since my Rugelii had flowers, why not? Lets see what happens. From the Waccamaw flower, the pod was recently transplanted and may not have been 100% giving me just 36 seeds. From the Rugelii flower, it grew well under the conditions of a grow-light, inside an apartment, and I obtained 263 seeds. Note this was in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. Light is poor and temperatures get cold. Haha, being so high on the mountain you might think well I was closer to the sun it should be warmer and sunnier, hahaha I joke because it doesn't work that way."

"Fast forward to the 2018 planting (Planted February 25, 2018), I planted all the seeds from the cross. From the Waccamaw flower (Waccamaw the mother, Rugelii the father), 1 of 36 (3%) seeds germinated. That 1 seedling later died. From the Rugelii flower (Rugelii the mother, Waccamaw the father), 127 of 260 (49%) seeds planted germinated. Of the 127, 86 survived (68%)  to the end of Week 13."

 

Now it is 2022. Of the 86 that survived... I kept track, and alive, at least 7 plants. There maybe more, but I'd have to look for tags. I was able to pick these out from other seedlings because they are the largest, oldest.

Below are pictures of the 'children' plants.

I initially called it Coppery, but it is more green with lines in the line.

The 'Green' on the left is skinnier, maybe because it hasn't grown enough. neat the lids are different, at least how they are looking now.

Note there are other plants in the pots such as venus flytraps, Drosera filiformis tracyii, and Sarracenia minor. These are not part of the cross of course. Space limited, some have to share bunks... cups.

I thought this a neat cross with a lot of variation. Also after 5 years!

Looking into this, a similar experiment has been done before, check out this link.

I made this post fast to at least get it out.

Thank you for viewing and have a nice day!