- Tue Jul 09, 2024 5:21 am
#453602
Forgive the ego in the title (SphagnumFromHell? Who's this dork? Am I expected to know him? )
Hello everyone. I have just finished collecting the last of my seeds from my pollinated Venus Flytrap flowers. This year, I've had 9 genetically different plants flower for me, and my intention was to get as many crosses as I could. These were the plants:
- 'King Henry' (KH)
- 'FTS Maroon Monster' (MM)
- 'SD Kronos' (SD)
- One seed grown typical (SG1)
- Two different seed grown typicals from the FlytrapStore (SG2) and SG3). SG2 is similar to 'Dentate' while SG3 is mostly red.
- A typical picked up from Walmart (WT)
- A typical picked up from Green Acres (GT)
- And my own cross between the aforementioned "Walmart typical" and 'FTS Maroon Monster' (WT x MM 1). I had two genetically different plants from this one cross, so I made sure which plant the flowers were coming from.
I kept track of which flowers on which plants have been crossed with who was by using small threads of fishing line colored with oil pastels. My original plan was to have a unique color for each cross, however after soon running out of all the possible combinations I switched to a new color code that only indicated the pollen donor plant. Since I could already tell who was the mother plant by looking at the plant tagged, I could simply infer the cross and save on unique pastel colors.
Here in this, uh, well used, color key, you can see which colors matched up with each pollen donor plant in the bottom portion. Although I switched to a different system, I kept the first color key intact just in case a label wasn't recolored. I only used up a new color when any actual pollen was used, so not all of the plants were color keyed. Once the flowers were pollinated, I harvested the seed pods as they ripened to be cleaned, labeled, bagged, and then lovingly stuffed into this tupperware container to be put in the fridge. I included the cross, date, and seed count. I had just ran out of space when I got all the seeds harvested.
On top of this, there were several flowers that successfully went to seed that either weren't pollinated by me, or the tags of which were unfortunately lost. I referred to these as "single mother" seeds. I knew the mother plant, but not the pollen donor. I also lumped a few pods together in the same bag, which means that some bags may have more than one cross. This is sort of an oversight on my part, but since these seeds will essentially sprout unlabeled typicals I think it's fine. The mother plant parentage will just give some reference when observing the seedlings features. After finishing this whole process up, here is the total:
Fully labeled crosses
((WT x MM1)x SG1): 1 seed ( )
((WT x MM1)x KH): 7 seeds
(MM x SG2): 6 seeds
(GT x MM): 4 seeds
(SD x KH): 3 seeds
(SG2 x MM): 4 seeds
(SG3 x SG1): 4 seeds
(KH x SG2): 6 seeds
(KH x SG1): 7 seeds
(WT x SG1): 3 seeds
(MM x KH): 15 seeds
((WT x MM1)x SD): 7 seeds
((WT x MM1)x SD): 14 seeds
Total: 21 seeds
(MM x SG1): 10 seeds
(MM x SG1): 2 seeds
Total: 12 seeds
(KH x MM): 1 seed (fertility issues?)
(KH x MM): 2 seeds
Total: 3 seeds
GRAND TOTAL: 96 labeled seeds
Single mother crosses
(KH x ?): 19 seeds
(SG2 x ?): 9 seeds
(WT x ?): 4 seeds
(WT x ?): 6 seeds
(WT x ?): 11 seeds
Total: 21 seeds
(MM x ?): 7 seeds
(MM x ?): 2 seeds
(MM x?): 4 seeds
(MM x ?): 11 seeds
(MM x ?): 10 seeds
(MM x ?): 21 seeds
Total: 55 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 3 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 6 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 10 seeds
Total: 19 seeds
GRAND TOTAL: 123 partially labeled seeds
THE GRAND GRAND TOTAL (fr this time like actually guys I'm not joking) : 219! With 14 different (identified) crosses!
Although I swear I counted 229 as I was harvesting, maybe I missed a seed packet? I'll recount later...
I'll keep this thread updated. I want to see how far I can document this until I either kill them all in a freak accident or end up with some cool crosses. Stay Tuned!
Hello everyone. I have just finished collecting the last of my seeds from my pollinated Venus Flytrap flowers. This year, I've had 9 genetically different plants flower for me, and my intention was to get as many crosses as I could. These were the plants:
- 'King Henry' (KH)
- 'FTS Maroon Monster' (MM)
- 'SD Kronos' (SD)
- One seed grown typical (SG1)
- Two different seed grown typicals from the FlytrapStore (SG2) and SG3). SG2 is similar to 'Dentate' while SG3 is mostly red.
- A typical picked up from Walmart (WT)
- A typical picked up from Green Acres (GT)
- And my own cross between the aforementioned "Walmart typical" and 'FTS Maroon Monster' (WT x MM 1). I had two genetically different plants from this one cross, so I made sure which plant the flowers were coming from.
I kept track of which flowers on which plants have been crossed with who was by using small threads of fishing line colored with oil pastels. My original plan was to have a unique color for each cross, however after soon running out of all the possible combinations I switched to a new color code that only indicated the pollen donor plant. Since I could already tell who was the mother plant by looking at the plant tagged, I could simply infer the cross and save on unique pastel colors.
Here in this, uh, well used, color key, you can see which colors matched up with each pollen donor plant in the bottom portion. Although I switched to a different system, I kept the first color key intact just in case a label wasn't recolored. I only used up a new color when any actual pollen was used, so not all of the plants were color keyed. Once the flowers were pollinated, I harvested the seed pods as they ripened to be cleaned, labeled, bagged, and then lovingly stuffed into this tupperware container to be put in the fridge. I included the cross, date, and seed count. I had just ran out of space when I got all the seeds harvested.
On top of this, there were several flowers that successfully went to seed that either weren't pollinated by me, or the tags of which were unfortunately lost. I referred to these as "single mother" seeds. I knew the mother plant, but not the pollen donor. I also lumped a few pods together in the same bag, which means that some bags may have more than one cross. This is sort of an oversight on my part, but since these seeds will essentially sprout unlabeled typicals I think it's fine. The mother plant parentage will just give some reference when observing the seedlings features. After finishing this whole process up, here is the total:
Fully labeled crosses
((WT x MM1)x SG1): 1 seed ( )
((WT x MM1)x KH): 7 seeds
(MM x SG2): 6 seeds
(GT x MM): 4 seeds
(SD x KH): 3 seeds
(SG2 x MM): 4 seeds
(SG3 x SG1): 4 seeds
(KH x SG2): 6 seeds
(KH x SG1): 7 seeds
(WT x SG1): 3 seeds
(MM x KH): 15 seeds
((WT x MM1)x SD): 7 seeds
((WT x MM1)x SD): 14 seeds
Total: 21 seeds
(MM x SG1): 10 seeds
(MM x SG1): 2 seeds
Total: 12 seeds
(KH x MM): 1 seed (fertility issues?)
(KH x MM): 2 seeds
Total: 3 seeds
GRAND TOTAL: 96 labeled seeds
Single mother crosses
(KH x ?): 19 seeds
(SG2 x ?): 9 seeds
(WT x ?): 4 seeds
(WT x ?): 6 seeds
(WT x ?): 11 seeds
Total: 21 seeds
(MM x ?): 7 seeds
(MM x ?): 2 seeds
(MM x?): 4 seeds
(MM x ?): 11 seeds
(MM x ?): 10 seeds
(MM x ?): 21 seeds
Total: 55 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 3 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 6 seeds
((WT x MM1)x?): 10 seeds
Total: 19 seeds
GRAND TOTAL: 123 partially labeled seeds
THE GRAND GRAND TOTAL (fr this time like actually guys I'm not joking) : 219! With 14 different (identified) crosses!
Although I swear I counted 229 as I was harvesting, maybe I missed a seed packet? I'll recount later...
I'll keep this thread updated. I want to see how far I can document this until I either kill them all in a freak accident or end up with some cool crosses. Stay Tuned!
Growlist and wants: sphagnum-from-hell-s-grow-list-t39874.html
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