- Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:18 pm
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Hi everybody.
Although my flytraps aren’t looking great right now, I thought I’d share some photos of my seedgrowns and seedlings.
I don’t have all that many, but the adult ones were grown from FTS seed from 2012. All of them color up much, much better when it’s cooler than they do in the summer. They all get flushed red on the outside of traps in the winter.
First up is a far away photo of my adults:
Next up are the four individual clones from this seed batch.
Clone 1 (fractal teeth):
It only shows these teeth from late April on. The early traps are normal looking. This plant is really vigorous — it easily produces decent sized traps (1”) and divides.
Clone 2:
This clone is a nice typical flytrap. It is even more vigorous than clone 1 is — I took off a dime sized division with traps under 1/2” this spring, and the division is already putting up traps .8” long! It colors up better in the heat than does clone 1, but it still has its best color in late fall and early spring.
Clone 3:
This plant is an OK typical. I haven’t really been able to evaluate it, although it was flowering sized last year. It dried out, killing the main growth point and causing this profuse clumping. Some of the growth points will probably be mature next year.
Clone 4 (all red):
You might ask why this plant is so small if it’s 5 years old. Well, it had grown slower than the other plants it shared it’s communal pot with. Last spring, I was expecting it to hit flowering size in 2018. Then, a raccoon destroyed its communal pot. All the plants were gone! The next day, I found a dehydrated rhizome with a tiny (~3-4mm) bit of healthy stuff. I quickly potted it up, and it was this plant.
I really like this plant. It’s got a great shade. I know it’s not quite solid red now, but it’s still a really nice plant.
2017 Seedlings:
These were grown from last year’s OP seed when clowns 1, 2, and 3 were flowering. I donated the rest of the seed to the ICPS, and got 100% germination on what I kept. I know they’re a bit small for ~11 month old seedlings, but I go to college in a different state, so I haven’t fed them nearly as much as I should’ve been. They just went outside from under my lights, hence the fantastic coloration even on the typicals. I find that even though I have a longer photoperiod indoors (16 vs 14 hrs), flytrap seedlings tend to grow quite a bit faster outside for me (so I put them outside when they’re big enough to handle it).
Hope you like the photos!
I wanted to get some more flytrap seeds this year, and clones 1 and 2 flowered. But, a caterpillar ate the bottom of clone 2’s flowerstalk before the seeds could ripen! So I only got a handful of seeds (clone 1 flowered a bit later, so many flowers had nothing to cross with).
Although my flytraps aren’t looking great right now, I thought I’d share some photos of my seedgrowns and seedlings.
I don’t have all that many, but the adult ones were grown from FTS seed from 2012. All of them color up much, much better when it’s cooler than they do in the summer. They all get flushed red on the outside of traps in the winter.
First up is a far away photo of my adults:
Next up are the four individual clones from this seed batch.
Clone 1 (fractal teeth):
It only shows these teeth from late April on. The early traps are normal looking. This plant is really vigorous — it easily produces decent sized traps (1”) and divides.
Clone 2:
This clone is a nice typical flytrap. It is even more vigorous than clone 1 is — I took off a dime sized division with traps under 1/2” this spring, and the division is already putting up traps .8” long! It colors up better in the heat than does clone 1, but it still has its best color in late fall and early spring.
Clone 3:
This plant is an OK typical. I haven’t really been able to evaluate it, although it was flowering sized last year. It dried out, killing the main growth point and causing this profuse clumping. Some of the growth points will probably be mature next year.
Clone 4 (all red):
You might ask why this plant is so small if it’s 5 years old. Well, it had grown slower than the other plants it shared it’s communal pot with. Last spring, I was expecting it to hit flowering size in 2018. Then, a raccoon destroyed its communal pot. All the plants were gone! The next day, I found a dehydrated rhizome with a tiny (~3-4mm) bit of healthy stuff. I quickly potted it up, and it was this plant.
I really like this plant. It’s got a great shade. I know it’s not quite solid red now, but it’s still a really nice plant.
2017 Seedlings:
These were grown from last year’s OP seed when clowns 1, 2, and 3 were flowering. I donated the rest of the seed to the ICPS, and got 100% germination on what I kept. I know they’re a bit small for ~11 month old seedlings, but I go to college in a different state, so I haven’t fed them nearly as much as I should’ve been. They just went outside from under my lights, hence the fantastic coloration even on the typicals. I find that even though I have a longer photoperiod indoors (16 vs 14 hrs), flytrap seedlings tend to grow quite a bit faster outside for me (so I put them outside when they’re big enough to handle it).
Hope you like the photos!
I wanted to get some more flytrap seeds this year, and clones 1 and 2 flowered. But, a caterpillar ate the bottom of clone 2’s flowerstalk before the seeds could ripen! So I only got a handful of seeds (clone 1 flowered a bit later, so many flowers had nothing to cross with).
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