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Post by brian on Oct 25, 2006 16:09:25 GMT -5
I'm kind of getting the idea that sarracenias can be readily cross-bred. As usual my interest is in the hardiness factor and while most seem native to the American southwest coastal region, our own native purp, provincial flower of Newfoundland, seems to be chock full of anti-freeze to survive Canadian sub arctic winters. So, have many crosses been made with purps? Would the hardiness gene be recessive and maybe require a second generation cross with a purp to bring it out? I'm way out of my league on this but I thought I would ask the experts if it is possible to use hybridization to create new hardy cultivars  |
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Post by tom on Oct 25, 2006 18:52:59 GMT -5
We had a similar idea at the last year CCPS meeting, and I asked this similar question on the CP Listserv. Surprisingly, some experts thinks S. purpurea might not be the best candidates to resist cold conditions... I'll try to gather those posts back (should be somewhere in my hotmail account) and paste them here. A national effort toward this prject would be awesome!
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Post by mabudon on Oct 25, 2006 19:49:44 GMT -5
I always thought Oreos would be a good idea from stuff I've read, and S.flava have proven pretty dang tough too... something that gets a long season, with vigorous growth throughout, might do better I'd guess.. everything with psittacina in it seems pretty tough, too, so far
EDIT-OH and yes, there's LOTS of crosses with purps in them, the darn names escape my right now but I've seen S.purpurea x leucophylla and S.purpurea x minor at least, I think there's others here with more on this tho
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