Pyro's Sarr seed grab bag giveaway... updates!!

[trek623]

here's an update on how mine are doing:

http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=plants1008zf7.jpg

thanks a lot! i'll update again in a few months. i can't wait to see how they turn out!


Some posts have been pulled from the giveaway thread to create their own thread... ENJOY! -Andrew

 

[SirKristoff]

my havent germinated yet -_-;;; i never have any luck with sarra seeds, i stratified em for about 6 weeks, i think i see signs of the first one germinating....but still nothing yet.

 

[NaRnAr]

mine havent germinated yet either, but im sure theyre getting there No worries! I do have some that I got from someone else *cant remember who* that are germinating

Im not keeping mine as wet as that, should they be that wet??

 

[SeanH]

Mine have germinated and I had a surprisingly high germination rate(~85%). A few a of seeds are cracking open still.

 

[trek623]

Im not keeping mine as wet as that, should they be that wet??

i don't think it matters too much as long as you don't let them dry out completely. in my experience, it is better to have too much water (is there such a thing when growing sarracenia?) than not enough water.

 

[NaRnAr]

good to know! I drenched the ones that are sprouting now and felt awful to the point I wicked some water out. Ill keep em nice a wet

I was looking at things and the mystery pot of sarrs are the ones I got from you...I just didnt write it down...I tried stratifying them two ways to see if there was a difference and then took them out of the fridge on different days...*doh* So I DO have some growing

 

[Pyro]

Man, you all are starting crazy early. I have not even pulled mine out of dry storage in the fridge... Not looking forward to setting up 60 pots for all these. IDK where I am going to put all of them...

 

[adnedarn]

Haha! And I thought I was slacking having just potted up all my sarr seeds last week Come on Travis, you know you're looking forward to it!

 

[Pyro]

No I am not LOL

Only option I can see is to put pots in a child's wading pool. And the Tasmanian were-devil loves water and tearing apart pots so the combination would be a dream for her. I do not know how to avoid my 60 pots of one of a kind crosses being demolished/scattered to the winds.

Figure I have another month to figure it out though, that will still give me more than enough time for a natural stratification.

 

[NaRnAr]

I was just excited to see them grow! lol! I go in and look at them at least twice a day as it is

 

[SirKristoff]

my first ones are starting to sprout. i think i counted 4, with more cracking now.
Thanks pyro

 

[Ant]

mine just came out of the strat last week. I do have a bunch of purpurea ssp purpurea from Brownfield Maine doing great.

 

[SirKristoff]

heres a few of my sprouts more are cracking

 

[NaRnAr]

Here are some of mine!!

 

[adnedarn]

I have pulled the above posts from the giveaway topic to create this new topic... Please post your updates here! :grin:
andrew

 

[bluebird]

Thanks for doing this andrew I just put my seeds to get them stratified I saved alot of plastic containers so I should be good for seed pots for now intill they get bigger and need to be repotted.

I can't wait to see how these turn out.

 

[SirKristoff]

i cant wait to see the hybrids or pure plants i got out of this batch, pyro thanks again i removed the bag today because of the amount of plants popping up. figure its time to start letting em get some more CO2 lol. some are sending up pitchers now.

 

[NaRnAr]

thought i would update...mine have their 1st pitchers!

 

[SirKristoff]

some of mine are puting out their 3rd pitchers or second pitchers now..some are just germinating too XD
ill post pics later

 

[bluebird]

I just put mine in for stratification yesterday I wished I did it more sooner, but ah well.
I hope mine do well I'm pretty excited to see how mine do. I'll post some pictures once I get germination.

Thanks alot for these pyro this'll be my first atempt at growing sarracenia from seeds. =)