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Post by nepenthes on Jan 21, 2008 15:19:15 GMT 8
You gotta love seed grown material... even if it is more costly than TC plants, it is definitely worth the cost. While some TC crosses come out nice, and more people can obtain them, seed grown material is by far where it's at  . |
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Post by rainforestguy on Jan 22, 2008 2:08:15 GMT 8
It is so amazing how we even have to memorize the sexes of known clone representatives. Now ask me again about the benefits of tc clones? You would think that with all the information regarding these individual clones those who sell them could at least say that this is male or female? What's all the secrecy about? Why do people pretend to treat them as seed originals and not know the gender of them, when these have been around for a while and even flowered.
Let me reiterate. If we had more seed original clones around, we wouldn't need to worry about who has the male and who has the female plant. Insist on buying seed originals, stay away from tc species clones. If you say where do we get these fresh seed from? Well most tc propagators have a large stock plants of seed originals in their collection. What purpose are these for if they ONLY sell tc clones of lesser or inferior forms of these species? Mature plants flower, pollen can be frozen and set aside for breeding when a prospective female comes into bloom. Selections of superior clones can be bred together creating attractive forms of a species. We've already seen this with ep's ventricosa clones, truncata clones, maxima clones, lowland veitchii, etc.
N. boschianas are starting to come around soon with male and female plants. Let's hope that these stay outside of a flask and grown in our gardens instead.
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Post by Ludwig on Jan 22, 2008 2:27:05 GMT 8
Michael and all, I completely agree with your thoughts on seed grown plants vs. TC. Even in my small collection, the plants I have multiple specimens of, I see huge differences in anything from color, size, and shape and girth of the peristome, even marked differences in leaf color. I only wish I had known this before when I was ordering my favorite crosses, so instead of buying only 3 or 4 plants I would have bought a dozen of each. For those unfamiliar with this first-hand, the differences in individual seed grown plants are more than obvious.
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