From: a san juan kalim1998 at yahoo.com> on 2005.07.22 at 02:45:21(13217)
"I didn't realize I was sitting on such a gold mine; I
have hybrids of this type that in my opinion are much
more desirable than the one fetching the high bid on
eBay; I guess I'd better get going here, huh?"
I'd like to volunteer myself as your agent, someone to
help you get started on eBay - I get 20% of course ;-)
Seriously, yes, there ARE truly people who will value
the work you do, provided you dole out the products
slowly - LOL...
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Plus, unlike the one fetching the high bids, your work
is highly visible and thus creates less uncertainty in
the minds of people.
--- LARIANN GARNER wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that Aroidia Research has been entered into the
> discussion, I
> decided it is time to toss my two cents in.
>
> I did this cross between P. stenolobum and P.
> bipinnatifidum in the
> early 1980s and at that time was exploring the
> possibility of putting it
> into tissue culture. Those plans fell through, but
> as far as I know,
> the plant was not released to the trade (at least,
> not by me).
>
> I didn't realize I was sitting on such a gold mine;
> I have hybrids of
> this type that in my opinion are much more desirable
> than the one
> fetching the high bid on eBay; I guess I'd better
> get going here, huh?
>
> The hybrid of P. stenolobum and P. goeldii has been
> done by Ron Weeks; I
> think he did his at about the same time as I did my
> P. goeldii x P.
> bipinnatifidum. I did not think to do the cross
> that Ron did because
> both of those parents have long petioles and I
> wanted a more compact,
> hardier progeny.
>
> This year, looks like I'll be able to do P.
> mello-barretoanum and P.
> goeldii, just for fun. I did self the P.
> mello-barretoanum and will
> have seedlings of the species available by next
> Spring (if all goes well
> and the hurricanes stay away).
>
> Best regards,
> LariAnn Garner
> Aroidia Research
>
> Philip Crabb wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >What about these two pages from Aroidia Research?
> >
> >http://aroidiaresearch.org/willoum.htm
> >
> >http://aroidiaresearch.org/affanta.htm
> >
> >The plant for sale looks more like the 'P. x
> African
> >Fantasy' than the 'P. x willoum,' which Aroidia
> >Research says is the hybrid between P. stenolobum
> and
> >P. selloum.
> >
> >Phil
> >
> >
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