Wanted orchid seed

[Stuie]

Hi everyone

I am looking to beg borrow or steal (buy that is! ) orchid seed.

I am after species mainly but would not be adverse to selected hybrids.

If you also have some special parents and are interested in supplying seed from these we could also come to some sort of surrogate payment arrangement. or even a royalty system on seedlings sold.
Stuart

[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

http://members.cox.net/ahicks51/osp/

[gerneveyn]

I found a few more sites that might be of interest to you.
www.bellaonline.com/articles/art41987.asp
http://www.australianorchidfoundation.org.au/
http://anosvic.org.au/ANOS_Vic_Seed_Propagation.html

[gerneveyn]

one more
http://www.orchidconservation.org/OS...itu/Banks.html

[Stuie]

Thanks for all those sites and though i already know about them and have bought seed from some of them.

What i am looking for is more selected parents and different varieties of species.

Also things that are rare and unusual so i can sell the ones i dont have room for and pay for my addiction!
Stuart

[Pconch]

I was just here to try and figure out what to do with the seed pods growing on some encyclia tampensis (likeley difficult to come by in OZ) I have just transferred from a friends Garden. How can I make use of the seeds? I would be happy to send you some if it is legal and practical. I thought maybe I should just cut them off but who doesn't enjoy propogation?

[Stuie]

Originally Posted by Pconch

I was just here to try and figure out what to do with the seed pods growing on some encyclia tampensis (likeley difficult to come by in OZ) I have just transferred from a friends Garden. How can I make use of the seeds? I would be happy to send you some if it is legal and practical. I thought maybe I should just cut them off but who doesn't enjoy propogation?

Id love some seed if its still available!

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!

[Anton]

Stuie you interested in Ozzie natives ?

A friend of mine here in Adelaide cultivates and flasks his own orchids and occaisionally pops up here on the Forum, I can put you in touch with him if you like.

[Pconch]

Just tell me what to do, there is still a bit left.
All the other pods were sprinkled about in an (weak but hopeful) attempt to repopulate this native. I figure I hit nearly 40 happy old lichen and moss bearing swamp tree's with some dust and wished them luck!

[Stuie]

Originally Posted by Pconch

Just tell me what to do, there is still a bit left.
All the other pods were sprinkled about in an (weak but hopeful) attempt to repopulate this native. I figure I hit nearly 40 happy old lichen and moss bearing swamp tree's with some dust and wished them luck!

Wow id love to know if you get any little ones come up where you sprinkled the seed!
Put the rest out id be happier to get one growing in its native habitat rather than here!!!!!!

[Stuie]

Originally Posted by Anton

Stuie you interested in Ozzie natives ?

A friend of mine here in Adelaide cultivates and flasks his own orchids and occaisionally pops up here on the Forum, I can put you in touch with him if you like.

Anton im more of an exotic grower.
Its funny we dont appreciate what is in our own backyard.
I have a friend in Ecuador who goes mad over aussie natives yet he dosent care a bit for native Cattleyas etc that i would love to have.

[Pconch]

The deed has already been done. As you were a bit slow in responding. I would hope some of my efforts may take, I did my best. (it will be very hard to find those trees again)

P.S. In a past post I mentioned wild collecting and imagine a few people may have been quite offended by that. Be relieved to know this took place on private property where you may now view watermelon growing about as far as the eye can see. I used to love that place.. (There were Fl panthers there too [30 something left supposedly]) almost everything farmed in Florida could be bought from desperately poor South american or carribean farmers; "narco-terrorists", instead we subsidize this bulldozing.

Politics and orchids don't mix.

Oh,.. any chance somebody might send me an aussi native suited to my subtropical climate? Or ecuador natives . Who wants a city slicker plant? hehe..

[Stuie]

Thats not really wild collecting its really salvage and rescue of doomed plants.
I will set pods on my neglected Aussie natives this year if you would like some seed from them.