Morning Glories: Group Seed Swap 2010, 0 by EmmaGrace

EmmaGrace wrote:
becky re more questions

beckygardener wrote:Emma - I am glad you clarified that! You had sent me three sets of 3 baggies each in large baggies. I thought maybe you had already bagged them for me to just add to Nicole and Tony's bubble envies. Definitely was confusing!

So ... let me understand this ...

You sent different seeds to everyone? Each seed is from a different vine? Are these fresh seeds from this year or older seeds from previous grow-outs from earlier years? Are these crosses or established cultivars like Rose Silk? (I still have 3 baggies of Rose Silk from previous year's trades with you.) So you basically know what you sent each person and you mailed to them personally to make sure they got the seeds you wanted them to get?

I am planning to share 1 seed of each cross/cultivar from the same vine with everyone. So everyone will get seeds from the same vine that I grew. Some of those seeds might be crosses, some might come true to the parent vine. I don't mark crosses on my vines, so anything is possible! That way everyone has the same odds of getting something unusual. Or getting something true! :-)

becky, you have stated numerous times throughout this Thread that seeds were to be packed up with at least 5-seeds per pack. You further stated the seed packs were to be marked as ‘Ipomoea nil MIX’ and not to divulge the name of the cultivars . . . “and perhaps more fun to see what we each get in blooms from all these mixed seeds”, you said. A recap of those statements are below:

Also, I have more than adequately answered your same questions numerous times - so now why are you questioning what seeds I have shared!
What I have shared is completely and entirely up to me and is not up to your inquisition


. . . So that brings me to this:

To simplify, you told everyone NOT to mention the cultivars they were sharing . . .

So:
Why am I being subjected to all of these questions ! ! !
Is this an interrogation ! ! !
Why are you asking these questions of ME ! ! !
I do not see that you are putting anyone else through the 3rd degree - So, Why are you not asking everyone else these questions ! ! !
Are you for some strange reason holding it against me because I generously donated more seeds than anyone else ! ! !
Are you implying I am sending ‘junk seeds’ ! ! !

I will only add this additional information about the seeds I shared:
All seeds I grew on my property This Year
All seeds grown were Open Pollinated

So, Please, no more repetitive questions.

beckygardener wrote:First I would like it to be only I. nils. We got a lot of I. purpurea seeds last year, so I. nil seeds would be nice to trade this year. I would like to have each person put together an I. nil "mixed" baggie of seeds for each participant. It could be as few as 5 seeds. But the catch is this ... each seed has to be a different cultivar. 1 seed of each cultivar with a minimum of 5 seeds per baggie. So it could contain an example like this:
1 seed each of Rose Silk, Blue Jishi, Pink Kikyo, Gray Fog, and Shidare. So each person would get a baggie from me of 1 seed of each of those cultivars. And then another person could send a different mix of I. nil seeds.

You might think that only one seed of each cultivar would not be very many, but let me tell you that one seed of any cultivar should grow you a nice size vine, lots of blooms, and if you start them early enough ... lots of seeds! Most all the cultivars I grew this year in each of the 5 gallon buckets were 1 seed, 1 vine per bucket. They got quite large and most produced seeds, too!

If we have 10 participants, that would be 10 seeds of each of five different cultivars for a total of 50 seeds that you would have to provide ... 10 of each cultivar like I listed above as an example. You won't be making up a baggie of mixed seeds for yourself, only for the other 10 folks in the swap! If you are a newbie, you'd have to buy enough packets of seeds to share 1 seed of each of five cultivars. Each person would make up 10 baggies of a minimum of 5 different seeds per baggie to be included in the swap. If there are less participants, then the number of seeds would be also less. You would make up 10 baggies for the swap of 5 different seeds each. Does that make sense?

And the cool thing ... if we have 10 participants, that would mean everyone would get at LEAST 50 different seeds, but possibly more if some folks share more than 5 seeds per baggie! These seeds could be stable cultivars or wild card crosses!

This message was edited Oct 25, 2010 11:03 PM

This message was edited Nov 1, 2010 9:43 PM

beckygardener wrote: What I was thinking is that each packet be the same, but no list of ID for each packet. Participants can just keep track of who sent you the seeds/vines when you grow them. When they bloom, then you can try to ID them. It will be a surprise as each person grows them!

This would be more unexpected and perhaps more fun to see what we each get in blooms from all these mixed seeds!

This message was edited Oct 24, 2010 9:07 AM

beckygardener wrote:The deadline for participants to send their seeds to me is November 30, 2010. You will need to make up 10 baggies each with a minimum of 5 different "mixed" Ipomoea nil seeds (one for each participant). You can add more than 5 different cultivars, but there must be at least 5 seeds per baggie!

Do NOT label the bags as to what cultivar of seeds you have added to each bag. Just mark the baggies as "Mixed Ipomoea nil" "Seed Swap 2010" and your screen name. Once I receive everyone's seeds, I will divide them out and send the swap seeds out to everyone.

Send me:
10 baggies labeled "mixed I. nil" seeds with your screen name on each baggie