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Seedy Subjects! => Seed Exchange => Topic started by: Maggi Young on August 17, 2013, 07:18:41 PM
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2013 Seed Donations to SRGC
A Seed exchange is only as good as the seed donated- please support the SRGC Seed Ex. by making a donation of seed from your plants.
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Please send seed donations, individually packaged per variety, preferably in a paper envelope, and cleaned of all seed cases, debris, insects, etc to:-
Prof. Stuart Pawley, Acres of Keillour, Methven, Perth, Scotland, UK, PH1 3RA.
Please include your name and address and a clearly written alphabetical list of the seed you are sending.
Please don’t be put off if you only have a small amount of seed of a species, or only a few species to send - it may be the small amount or seed that no-one else has, and that someone would love to have.
The deadline for seed to arrive at Stuart’s door is 31st October 2013.
If you have “late maturing” seed that cannot be sent until later, please send the information about this as early as possible and before 31st October, to Stuart at gsp.srgc@btinternet.com. Send the list in the text of an e-mail, not as an attachment. Stuart can’t afford a computer virus at this critical time. It is important to send the information early so we can produce the seed list in good time.
Please send late seed as soon as you can.
This coming seed list will be the 67th for the SRGC - please collect seed from your plants and donate to the seed exchange
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Hi,
I got meconopsis napaulensis from the SRGC seed ex 2010/2011, nice plants, which have now flowered. One plant was yellow and the rest red. Trying to check these, I read that m. napaulensis and regia are unknown in cultivation, and what are grown are hybrids.
As what should I submit the seeds from these plants?
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I would suggest : M. ‘napaulensis’ (hort)
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Hi Maggi, good suggestion, 'hort' does not seem to be something used in the SRGC seed list - presumably I add that, the good Prof. deletes it and all is as it should be.
I could put m. n. hybrids.
Alas they've (as advertised) proved to be monocarpic, the leaf rosettes in Winter were good.
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'hort' is something that I believe James Cobb would go along with - and that's good enough for me.
The ways of the professor are often beyond my comprehension - he dances to his own tune.
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Maggi,
It seems that every body ( also foreign members), have to pay for there seed order, from now on. Is that also for seed donors? I don't read that in the papers.
Please let me know,
regards Peter
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Maggi,
It seems that every body ( also foreign members), have to pay for there seed order, from now on. Is that also for seed donors? I don't read that in the papers.
Please let me know,
regards Peter
Have a look at http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10803.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10803.0)
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Thanks David,
I've read that in the latest SRGC issue, but I see nothing if donors must pay also fot ther seed request,
regards Peter
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I thought that the annual 2013 subscription for foreign members included the fee for the seed order. If so then we are being charged twice.
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The charge being made is for the post and packing of the seed, not the seed itself.
All members must pay.
The SRGC subscription year runs, as it always has, from October to October: thus subscriptions paid in October 2012 entitled overseas members to the basic Seed Exchange allocation without extra payment in the winter 2012 season.
The new subscription for the year 2013-2104 is due now. Rates now only take increased Journal postage into account, and seed is charged additionally.
I hope this is clear . :)
Edit : note added -I should have noted that donors have always paid towards their seed. One of the reasons why all members should be so grateful to them for their support of the club.
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Hello Maggi ;D
My English is not very good, and i have a little confusion about the seed exchange 2013.
I read (understand) that all members could pay for seed this year . ???
For my example, i pay my new subscription for the year 2013-2104 last week for "Overseas - Membership" and i send most of 10 packets of seeds tomorrow for SRGC exhange.
Last year, i have seed packets for zero euros ...and this year i could pay what ?
Could you explain me in simple word , why this change and what could i paid for packet of seed ?
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Have a good day in the garden for all members ;)
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Hello Sandy - this year you will pay £5 (7 euros) for your main seed allocation - as a donor you can receive 25 packets of seed for this amount. ( 16 packets for non-donors)
Each 25 packets of seeds from the surplus seed will cost £5.
It is because the postage costs have risen so much for the journals and seed that the new charge has been introduced.
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As I will be on pension (not retired!) from January next year, I will have to review all my international subscriptions carefully. The new seed-exchange charges, coupled with the increase in postage / subscription rates and our weak currency make the whole excercise quite expensive! :'(
Perhaps registering for the 'electronic' journal makes more sense to people from 'foreign' countries http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10804.0 would be a viable option? ???
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Perhaps registering for the 'electronic' journal makes more sense to people from 'foreign' countries http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=10804.0 would be a viable option? ???
I think that the possibilities to enjoy the journal on a screen or reader - with the chance to enlarge text and pictures at will is a big draw for the electronic subscription option, Rogan - and the cost of that, even with seed exchange costs, is a VERY good deal - in the UK or overseas.
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Hi Maggi,
I've understood well the changes which have been introduced for overseas members regarding the seed exchange. Would you please consider the fact that sending seed for the exchange from other parts of the world is also "expensive". A bit more I assume than for UK people. I have sent some seeds to the 2013 exchange but really don't know whether I'll ask for anything in return. And, of course, I'll consider about sending something for the 2014 exchange. I'm sorry.
JP
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Your support of the Seed Exchange is much appreciated, J-P.
Of course it costs the kind donors to send in their seeds to the exchange - it has always been so and is part of the generous attitude of donors who give their time and trouble to collect the seed and to send it in. That is why donors get a larger seed allocation than non-donors and also have their allocations chosen before non-donors.
It is a token of thanks to them for their kindness in supporting the exchange to the potential benefit of all members.
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Being new member since this year, and consequently this is my first seed exchange to which I will be contributing with 5 different species I may as well put here what motivates me to do it. First, I find it fun to collect the seeds from my plants and compared to previous years I am doing this much more 'involved', really trying to harvest as many good seeds as possible. By the way, since my seeds all are of the late maturing kind (It's early November and most of my seeds are still hanging to the plants) but I promised Stuart to send seeds, I feel I must honor this now of course. Sending the E-mail was the easy part of the job 8)
But I also think that if I feed the seed exchange with my seeds, this will inspire other persons to do the same, in the end I think most of us want to enlarge our collections with hard to find species or at a better price than on commercial websites, and this community makes it possible.
Also, in the past I often had way too much seeds, I really do not have space & time to take care of thousands of Eucomis bulbs for instance, so rather than throwing away I may as well make somebody else happy with my seeds. And in some way it will be fun to know seedlings of my plants growing all over the world. And the cost to me is moderate, probably it will cost me 15 EURO or so to send the seeds, and twice a week half an hour of my time to collect and clean the seeds.
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work in progress ... picking the seedcapsules of my Eucomis when they start to open. The three cardboard trays at the right were picked last week, are dry now and are ready to be processed in the 'shaker' to release the seeds, the other ones were picked yesterday and submitted to a thorough inspection from one of my cats ;)
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Francosi,
We don't usually need to have the seeds Cat Scanned! ;D
cheers
fermi
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Francosi,
We don't usually need to have the seeds Cat Scanned! ;D
cheers
fermi
But if need be we can have Cat Scanning and arrange Lab Testing too.......
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