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Hey guys, I received this plant from Matt about a month or so ago (Thanks Matt!) and I was incredibly surprised when the plant wasted no time in beginning to flower as well as put out pitchers for the season. Less than two weeks. Needless to say I'm excited about it and it inspired me to create a thread tracking its progress. I may do the same with some of my more interesting Sarrs. Currently, the largest pitcher on the plant is about 10 inches long.


I'll post an update later on when it does something else. In the meantime, I'm going to attempt to self the plant and see if I can get some species seeds out to share. The flower has since almost opened and now I'm hitting google for protips.

Congrats, yours needs to tell mine to hurry up

I've got one in dormancy that isn't budging but another that I sprouted from a blind rhizome last fall. It has been under lights all winter and is about 5 inches tall.

ChefDean wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 2:10 am I also got one from Matt, and it looks like I'll be able to put my sleeping plants outside by the weekend. Hopefully mine does half as well as yours.

Chef, I normally grow my baby rubras of that size (shown above) indoors. I find they're not fans of extremes, and although I put normal rubras/alatas and stuff outdoors, I keep all the alabaminensis, jonseii, and wheryii (rare ones) indoors on a sunny window. I find they don't really need dormancy too much, and they grow MUCH faster. Once they outgrow the 1020 pots, I then stick em outside.

Also, for anyone wanting some seeds with rubra, here's what's coming soon.

(Oreo x Rubra) x Oreo Natural Hybrid - 1/4 Rubra
(Oreo x Rubra) x (Alabaminensis x Minor 'okee giant') - 1/2 Rubra
(Oreo x Rubra) x (Oreo x Rubra "different clone, not selfed") - 1/2 Rubra
Rubra x Alabimensis - 1 Rubra
(Oreo x Rubra) x Alabaminensis - 3/4 Rubra
(Oreo x Rubra) x Jonseii - 3/4 Rubra.

Hopefully I will donate some as well.

Lastly, you can always HMU with a SASE and I will send you some pollen for seed split if you don't want to self the plant!

Looks great@Apollyon! Thanks for the update

Congrats!


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Crazy how fast this one is growing. Wanted to get a pic with the flower and some pitchers opened up. Second growth point is doing work. There are a couple more pitchers growing in kinda hidden behind the stalk. Think I might try to slip-pot it into a larger container lol

I was kinda caught off guard by the growth from my plants this year. I remember it being around now or late march when it started but these guys have been moving since the end of Feb. VFTs aren't putting out summer leaves yet but they're ramping up their rate of growth.

I was surprised by the maturity of the rhizome. I tried pollinating it, we'll see if it took. Hoping to have some seeds to send in too.

Anyone have spares to donate me, and I will donate you later? Mine sadly died of root rot, my biggest specimen.

Yeah, this was my first shot at it. I didn't get to do it multiple times. I did it about a week ago or so as well as I attempted today but the leftover pollen was nowhere to be found for one reason or another. Still, I attempted to brush down there and hit the points. My Hurricane Creek clones appear to be starting. Hopefully I'll get an HC cross. A lot of them are new so I'm not really sure what to expect out of them yet.

I hadn't thought about it though that makes a lot of sense. As it stands, the only other that has a flower is this one. I'm unsure how many I'll have but if there are more than two I'll bag it. My black alata may flower, too bad my red one is a juvenile. I'd love to see how dark that cross would get. Couple years :/ You going to use osmocote this year? I was reading about it last year and was going to wait for spring.