In a message dated 4/20/06 3:01:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"ENOUGH!!
What is it with you people?!
This list is about orchids predominately.
Take your off-topic posts elsewhere. There's nothing stopping
you from discussing this with one another privately, but it's like
you just have a need to grandstand, to be seen, and then the next
poster chimes in prolonging the off-topic posts.
What part of "Go OFF-list" don't you guys understand It's really very
simple.
Sorry to be so blunt: Let's stick to orchids and related topics. Please?
Totally Arrghh!"
Unless I am somehow being automatically spared off topic posts, there hasn't been one on the digest since the 12th of the month. And the appropriateness of that post is debatable. The validity of a particular name, as a consequence of date of publication is on topic. A very public bitch fight may not be, but a significant number of people find them amusing nonetheless.
And as national and international politics has an undeniable affect on habitat preservation, global climate change, restrictions on international trade and so on; even political discussion can be seen as an orchid related topic.
But on to other things
I just crossed two of my nice large flowered clones of Pleione formosana, as well as formosana x confusa (which I believe remakes Shantung). Can any sort of germination be expected if seeds are sown on moss (as with Spiranthes cernua which comes up like a weed)? If they really need to be flasked, how long till the pods can be harvested?
Thanks,
Dennis
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