Group Seed Swap Part #3

We came from here: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1054921/

THIS SWAP IS CLOSED!!!

The end of the year is fast approaching and I hope all participants are preparing for this MG group seed swap. For those in the swap, please follow the swap participation requests that I have listed below to ensure that this is a wonderful experience for everyone!

This is what I would like from everyone in the swap. Please send: (UPDATED on December 1st)

1) A 8.5 x 11 inch bubble envelope. This bubble envie will be used to send the swap seeds back to you.
2) All the LABELED packets of seeds that YOU are sharing with others. Seed packets should each contain 3-5 (or more) seeds. Each packet needs to be labeled with the: A) Cultivar of the MG (if known), B) Species of MG seeds, C) Your DG name, and D) Season and Year seeds were collected.
3) YOUR return address label (printed please!) This can be a label typed up on printer paper that I can tape (using packaging tape) to the front of your bubble envie.
4) A check (or cash) for return postage and Delivery Confirmation (in the amount of $5.00 which should cover it all) I haven't figured out yet how to handle the postage cost for folks outside of the USA. I will privately discuss this in a dmail with those individuals as they contact me.

PLEASE NOTE: I would like to request that EVERYONE (except those outside of the USA) participating in this swap, send their seeds/bubble envie to me by Delivery Confirmation. (It's only $.80 and well worth it to make sure that I get your envie and seeds!) Dmail me for my mailing address when you are ready to send your seeds to me. I can not be responsible for any seeds that I don't receive.

I need everyone's seeds received by January 15th, 2010.

You can send them any time AFTER Dec. 1st, but Jan. 15th is the cut-off date. Maximum of 18 packets of seeds per cultivar so that each participant gets one of your seed packets. I am hoping everyone participating will have enough seeds to share so that each person in the swap gets a packet (per cultivar) from you.

If you have other seeds (not MG) to share but maybe not enough to share with everyone, please list your seeds and they will be given to the first folks to request them. The person sending them will have to either mark them for that person or drop a note in their bubble envie as to who gets what seeds. I leave it up to the sendee to keep track of who gets your seeds.

Any questions, please post in this thread.

I am going to keep the names of the participants in this first post:

1) beckygardener - A variety of different seed packets of I. nils and some other goodies that will be a surprise! ;-)
2) imzadi (Received - Mixed MGs, Cardinal Climber, Orange Noah, and White Cypress vine)
3) joeswife (received - Messina Creeper, Lavender Moonvine, Setosa, Blue Jishi x Ten Ten, Roman Candy, Akatsu no Mai, and her I. pupurea mix)
4) guamsorbit (Received - Crimson Rambler and Sunrise Serenade (both I. purpureas), & Heavenly Blue (tri-color.)
5) mittsy
6) momcat (Received - Pearly Gates & Flying Saucers (both tricolor) and White Feathered Hige (I. purpurea))
7) luvsgrtdanes (received - Diluted Joyce Cobb I. purpurea, Hige mix I. purpurea, Split Indigo Blue I. purpurea, Heavenly Blue I. tri-color, Mixed Blues I. purpurea, Dark Purple I. purpurea, Canna Lily Indica Flambe, and Helianthus annuus)
8) Helena - Cocoa Chocolate, NOID Pink w/pink or purple, NOID Blue/Purple Cross, George Strait, Mix of Blues - can be any or all of these: Star of India, Berlin Blue, Blue Swirl, or Xiong, Dark Center SOH, Blue Frost. All of those mentioned are I. nils. Then she also sent I. hederfolia var. Lutea "Pumpkin".
9) Cibarius (received 4 different cultivars of MG seeds - Blue Tie-dye, Alba Moonflower, Minibar Rose, and Scarlett O'Hara and sent some I. coccinea orange flower)
10) mortez - (Received - Sunrise Serenade (I. purpurea), light blue MG (light tan seeds), Mini Bar Rose (I. nil), purple MG, mixed MGs, Heavenly Blue, and a few baggies of extras (see below).)
11) ridesredmule (received 2 different species of MG seeds - Mixed I. purpurea and small orange blooming MGs)
12) WantabeGardener - Gypsy Bride Hige I. purpurea
13) Elsa
14) Evr (Received I. purpurea seed packets)
15) Sissy70 (Received - Milky Way I. purpurea, Mammoth Russian Sunflower, and Red Hollyhocks)
16) revclaus
17) nanniepb (Received - Mixed JMG I. nil seeds and Cleome mixed seeds!)
18) LilliMerci - (Received - NOID Hot Pink and Akatsuki no Muraski - both are I. nils)

ALSO: Karen (gardener2005) sent in packets of her beautiful Blue/Purple Blizzard & Solid Mix seeds for each participant. And Dany (Dany12) sent packets of some of his Mixed I. nils that I am sure will delight everyone. So many thanks to these two folks for donating seeds to this swap for everyone to enjoy!!! THANK YOU!

I will add a note next to each participant's name in the list above when I receive their bubble envie and seeds. So when you send them to me, keep an eye on this list to check to see that I have indeed received your seeds within a week after you mail them out to me. :-)

This thread will be used for further discussions and information concerning this swap. :-)

So ... start getting your seeds collected, bagged, and tagged! I need to receive everyone's seeds by the middle of January. :-)

This message was edited Jan 15, 2010 7:42 PM

duly noted.. however, mine are not going to be printed as they are marked on the baggies with perm marker.. sorry.

they grow just as well if you hand write the label ;)

Not a problem. Just make sure that they have your DG screen name (and other pertinent info as listed above) on the baggies. That way if anyone has any questions about seeds or vines or blooms, they know who to direct their questions to. :-)

Folks - Feel free to dmail me for my mailing address when you are ready to send your seeds and bubble envelope to me. :-) Some of you already have my address, but many are newbies here on this forum. :-)

The envies and seeds are starting to arrive! Just a reminder that we have just a little more than a month before the deadline. Please be sure to send your envies/seeds by Delivery Confirmation!

I received Cibarius's seeds today! :-)

yikes. i'm waiting till the last minute, as usual. lol.

no....but i was gonna wait till after Christmas was over. its too hectic.
i'm trying to make aprons for christmas presents for my DGDs and few friends. we cut 4 out last night.

Becky, would you rather we send them early?

Thanks, Phyllis! You can send the seeds now or anytime by January 15th. I am just letting everyone know that the seeds are getting to me and it is looking fun! Lots of different species and cultivars. Some that I haven't grown yet! :-) Gonna be a great growing season in 2010!

Charleen - I received your seeds today! Everything arrived in perfect shape! You did a great job labeling your seeds for the swap! Thanks! :-)

I'm glad youre listing the seeds. I was looking at seeds but saw that the ones I wanted to order were already on the list.

=)

Phyllis - You can never have enough of any cultivar or species of MG! LOL! Send whatever you want to for this seed swap! Everyone will enjoy whatever you send, I am sure. :-)

Received a very generous bubble envie of seeds from Dany12 today for each participant. The packets are a mix of some of the beautiful I. nils he grew this year! :-)

Dany12 - THANK YOU SO MUCH!

And many thanks also to Karen (garderner2005) for the Blue/Purple Blizzard & Solid Mix seed packets that she sent for each participant, too!

Neither of these folks are in the swap, but they were very kind to offer some of their seeds for each participant!

Thank you to both of them for their generosity!!! :-)

awww what a nice thing to do!

Oh that is so nice of them..wowow...thank you .

smiles..Diana...

Received Debra's seeds today! She sent some Lavender Moonvine and some Setosa (which is such a cool vine!!) and her beautiful Akatsu no Mai, as well as lots of other varieties. Nice selection of seeds she's sharing! Thanks Debra!

We're getting a lot of different varieties of MG seeds! Can you just imagine the the vines we'll have growing this Spring/Summer! Who hoo! :-) :-)

This message was edited Dec 15, 2009 12:15 AM

ok done with one seed swap so working on this one.

know fr sure have lutea and probably enough of noah to send. and pure white cypress( which went beserk this year)

i'm going to work on my seeds later this week. It's going to be a mixed batch because I had harvested them and my daughter knocked the bowls over and they all got mixed in when she picked them up. Bless her 7 year old heart. I do have one seperate batch that I made already.

Sounds good! Be sure to send it Delivery Confirmation to make sure that I get it. So far, so good on receiving all that have already been sent to me. :-)

I received Diana's envie today which contained Gypsy Bride Hige/Feathered I. purpurea seeds for everyone to enjoy! Thanks Diana!

I don`t know if this is true for everyone else but I have to either use a small box or stuff my envelope with a small amount of packing to make it 3/4 inch thickness or they will not let me have the DC at the post office. They told me if I prepare a label online and I send a package thinner than 3/4 in thickness with DC that it will arrive postage due. So, I thought people should get a heads up on that one. Karen

I mailed mine out today....will have pics of what I sent after the trade if anyone wants to see them.

got mine ready but in the middle of a snow storm,could get up to 12" of snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! havent seen that much snow here in like 10 years or so ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! soon as i can get them to the PO they will be on their way to you ok? i hope im not late yet lol thxs becky so much for doing this !!!!!!!!!

Oh dear, that is alot of snow!!!!
Ronnie, I love to look at your pictures.

Just a new update:

I received seeds from Ronnie (luvgrtdanes) today as well as some additional seeds from Doug (Cibarius). Check the first post to see what they sent!

Ronnie not only packed up each cultivar in seperate small envies, but also packed up all the different cultivars she sent into zip bags for each participant! Thanks for doing that Ronnie! Looks like we are going to have a truly great selection of seeds from this swap!

There is less than a month now to get your seeds sent out to me! Hopefully, those who I haven't received yet are working on theirs now or will be after the holidays! :-)

I received seeds from Mortez today. See above for what she sent. But she also sent in some extras where there is not enough for everyone, so it's first come, first serve. Who wants one or both?

6 packs of Chocolate Silk
10 packs white with purple stripes

becky i dmailed u lol

WantabeGardener wants one of the chocolate mg seed packets.

Anyone else want to put in their request for either or both of those extras?

How many seeds in each pack? Is there enough to count them and re divide them into 18 packs? (only a suggestion)

Karen - I had already thought of that. But unfortunately, there are only 5 seeds per packet, so that mean 30 seeds total. You divide 30 by 18 participants and that is less than 2 seeds per person. It wouldn't work to divide the Chocolates or even the other one. That's why I posted to see who wants a packet of them. Many of us who have been growing MGs for awhile may have already grown Chocolate. I grew it my first year. Unfortunately, that is before I knew how to hand-pollinate them to get lots of seeds. But I think I still have a packet of 3-4 seeds left from my own grow-out, so I don't need any seeds. There are now 5 packets left of Chocolate and 10 of the other.

So y'all don't be shy! If you want some ... speak up!!! :-)

I'd love some of the Chocolate.

Deb

You got it, Deb! That leaves 4 packs left. Who else?

I would love to try it if they are still available. I'm going to send my seeds out on Monday or Tuesday.

The spontaneous choosing makes it all that much more exiting. I hope everyone gets blessed with the best year ever. :)

6 packs of Chocolate Silk
10 packs white with purple stripes

would like both. if not will take the chocolate


hope you all had a great holiday. me spent the day in the hospital and had day surgery today and back in my home tonight. i havent done all my seeds yet but will get them ouyt in a few days i hope.

Marie, Hope your surgery went well today and that
you're feeling ok.

heal up fast, marie

it looks like its gonnna be slow going for awhile. could barely walk this morning. soaked in tub like doc said too as stitches were water proof. wish i could of stayed there all day. instant pain relief.

thanks all

Marie, Then if I were you, I would get back in the tub and stay there as long as I wanted to.

Nicole - Will add some chocolate MG seeds to yours as well. :-)

Marie - Chocolate and the striped white/purple for you.

That leaves 2 left of Chocolate and 9 left of the white/purple.

If I overlooked anyone asking for them, please dmail me or post here again.

Marie - Sorry to hear about your surgery. Hope you recover ASAP!

I've made up gallon ziploc bags with each participants names on them and have been dividing out seed packets as they arrive. On January 15th or as soon as all participants get yours to me, I will be getting them completed to mail back out to everyone. :-) There is still about 20 days left before the 15th.