Morning Glories: Group Seed Swap 2010, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
PLEASE NOTE!!! :

All participant's swap seeds were sent out to each of you today, November 27th! All but Dany's & Elsa's bubble envies were sent delivery confirmation. If you would like your delivery confirmation number, please dmail me! And please let me know when you get yours!

THIS SEED SWAP IS CLOSED!!!! If others missed it, we may get enough interest to do a second seed swap. So if you are interested in being part of a second seed swap, post at the end of this thread.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS SWAP IS FOR THE FIRST 10 PARTICIPANTS. IF WE GET MORE THAN 10, I WILL ATTEMPT TO START ANOTHER SWAP SIMILAR TO THE FIRST ONE. (THAT STRICTLY DEPENDS ON GETTING ENOUGH PARTICIPANTS TO ACTUALLY DO A SECOND SEED SWAP, THOUGH.)

Currently there are 10 people signed up for this swap:
1) Becky - Already had packed up and waiting! / Received my swap seeds! :-)
2) Elsa - (Received seeds 11/8) -
3) Tony - (Received seeds 11/26)
4) Debra - (Received seeds 11/11) Received swap seeds!
5) Ronnie - (Received seeds 11/6) Received swap seeds!
6) Helena - (Received seeds 11/1) Received swap seeds!
7) Robbie - (Received seeds 11/8) Received swap seeds!
8) Nicole - (Received seeds 11/15) Received swap seeds!
9) Dany - (Received seeds 11/22)
10) Karen (bluespiral) - (Received seeds 11/15) Received swap seeds!

Karen (gardener2005) has declined joining the swap... but once again donated seeds. She sent in mixed seed baggies for participants in October. Received donated seeds from Emma on 11/1.

Not sure how many would be interested in this swap since we got sooooo many seeds last year, but this one would require a LOT less seeds. Here is my idea:

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!

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