Peruflora attended the AOC Conference at Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia in July 2006. They brought pre-ordered flasks (mini, 5-6 seedlings) of Pk and some other phrags, including one or two Pk crosses. I can understand their wish that plants not be sold for another 6 months, because most of the seedlings were small (Maximus x Goliath by far the largest) and only for hand carriage. The cultural notes that Manolo of Peruflora handed out were that the seedlings only be deflasked when they were close to the height of the flask; there were also cultural notes for deflasked plants and a mention of the calcareous environment under which they grew in nature.
Interestingly, Manolo in a conversation said that P. besseae also grew over limestone. Do any OGDers have comments about that? This is my personal experience **only** and I offer no advice or recommendations, flames, controversy, enorsements, etc. I bought a couple of flasks and found Manolo a very pleasant and helpful man to deal with. Given the large distances that he had to travel, I hope that he had a profitable conference. It was noted that he obtained flasks from some other vendors (there was a lot of international flask interchanges took place, presumably swaps), all of South American species. Sort of like sending ice to Alaska (for US readers) or coals to Newcastle (for poms). Cordially, Phil ############################################################################### Dr Phil Diamond [EMAIL PROTECTED] 66 Cliff Street, Sandgate, Qld, AUSTRALIA 4017. Tel +61 7 3269 0302 _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
