Re: Pacific northwest CP Club/ Drosera Seed

From: Chris Teichreb (cjteichr@sfu.ca)
Date: Tue Oct 05 1999 - 22:43:19 PDT


Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:43:19 -0800
From: Chris Teichreb <cjteichr@sfu.ca>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg3459$foo@default>
Subject: Re: Pacific northwest CP Club/ Drosera Seed

Nat,

        For yourself and anyone else that's interested. The PNWCPC has
been meeting about once a year around August. However, we're hoping to
have a couple of meetings next year, one in spring (around May) and one
around fall (September or Oct). We figured the spring meeting would allow
newly bought plants lots of time to adapt to each individual's growing
conditions, as well as allow people to see many of the plants in bloom.
The fall meeting would give us an opportunity to talk about dormancy issues
as relates to the Pacific Northwest.

        Capes are really easy from seed, as are many other species of
sundews. I'm not sure what you mean by the Australian upright varieties,
although I think you may be referring to some of the tuberous sundews.
Unfortunately, not a lot of people in the PNWCPC, at least who I've talked
to, actually grow many tuberous species.

Happy growing,

Chris

>When and where does the Pacific NW Carnivorous Plant club meet? I think
>that my best chances for success will come from a Drosera collection to
>start. It seems that seed is the best, easiest and most economical way
>create a collection.I like the look of the Cape Sundews and some of the
>Australian upright varieties and it appears that growing from seed is
>about the only reasonable way to create a collection at a reasonable
>price. I'm in Canada by the way and it looks like the cost of Agricultural
>Inspections is prohibitive when importing small quantities of CP's.
>Nat



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