I recently bought a young darlingtonia seedling, which is supposedly 'all red' or a very red form anyways. It is a genetics thing, because lots of the seedlings were 'very red' in the batch. I've heard that darlingtonia seedlings start out very red, but get greener with age, and was wondering just how old seedlings need to be before you can see if they're going to go green or not?
This seedling is 3 or 4 years old, and still displaying mostly red leaves, with only a tiny amount of green on the bottoms of some pitchers, where they were hidden by sphagnum completely.
Here is what it looks like:
And even if it isn't all red, it's still my first darlingtonia seedling. Plants this size cost 40$ over here. Mine cost me 26$.
This seedling is 3 or 4 years old, and still displaying mostly red leaves, with only a tiny amount of green on the bottoms of some pitchers, where they were hidden by sphagnum completely.
Here is what it looks like:
And even if it isn't all red, it's still my first darlingtonia seedling. Plants this size cost 40$ over here. Mine cost me 26$.