At 11:45 AM 12/27/2006, you wrote:
>No seed list here yet. As has happened for the past three years, I
>will get my order mailed on the same day that I receive the list but
>will still be relatively low on the list by the 'first-served'
>criteria. I wish there was a fairer way of determining priority.
Heheh, that's when you contact the donor and beg them for a plant if
you don't get the seeds you wanted. :-) I haven't resorted to those
tactics, but I have my eye on someone new on this list. I want the
parent plant, but not the seeds since they were OP. There's nothing
particularly special about the plant other than it was wild collected
not too far from Cincinnati.
Regarding fairness. Other societies prioritize based on donors
before non-donors, then life-members, etc. I kind of like the
first-come first-served. You could do it electronically, via email,
but then that's not fair to those without internet. (Then again,
what better reason to get the internet!)
One of my favorite clubs is the Pacific Bulb Society. I know a lot
of you are members, too. They have bulb & seed exchanges on an
almost weekly basis. It all depends on when someone donates
something. You never know what time of the day or night you'll get
that special announcement in your email mailbox with the latest
offerings. And you can count on it, that within 24 hours, they're
allllll gone.
NARGS is a society I just haven't convinced myself to join yet. I
know they have a massive seed exchange about this time of year, but
99.5% of the stuff are things I would never grow. It's that other
0.5% that makes me drool uncontrollably. Anyway, I seem to recall
they had a rather peculiar system for ordering seeds. I thought
SIGNA's was way better.
The Passiflora society has an interesting seed exchange system as
well, giving priority to donors.
Anyway... I'm sure you'll get your list in the mail today,
Lowell. So go check that mailbox!
Dennis in Ohio (sunny but cold)
PS: I just filled out my SIGNA list. It's a list of one. Libertia
chilensis. In the past I tried the Australian species of Libertia
from Pacific Bulb Society, but it never germinated. Maybe I'll be
luckier with this one.
