Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:05:10 +1200 From: "Heather Frederick" <flytrap@ihug.co.nz> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg2949$foo@default> Subject: Re: SSProject
Hello Bob and everybody else
> Project completion? Around Star Date 2018. Just kidding.
> This will depend on which color form the S. x "Joe Mazrimas"
> is and how quickly I (or others) build up stock to start over.
> Remember, we started the whole thing nearly 30 years ago.
> This project would be funnier if we collectively all work together
> by exchanging pollen and so forth. That would greatly speed
> up the final results and may shave a decade or two off of the
> project. Any takers?
Sure, I'm a sucker.
I already have a few S. (oreophila x flava heavy vein) x (alata purple
throat x minor giant) that are flowering size. However as I am in the
Southern hemisphere and you guys are in the Northern hemisphere I don't
know how effective pollen exchange is going to be.
Theoretically all these plants should have yellow flowers, right? Not so,
over half have pink flowers, why would that be? The pitchers vary in form
but of the ones that have pitchers that are really similar, some are yellow
flowered and some are pink flowered.
Getting back to the super Sarra, here in Auckland, New Zealand, it is
normal to flower Sarras is three years from seed. The flower buds are
coming up now, what crosses do you want next?
Toodles
Heather Frederick
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