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Post by Guest on Dec 19, 2007 0:52:58 GMT
Is it just getting into cultivation? I can barely find any place that does have one. It's also way too expensive. can anyone tell me a place which sells reasonably priced plants? (has nothing to do with business here)
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Post by Guest on Dec 19, 2007 0:58:42 GMT
Oh yeah, and can anyone post their plant too?
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Post by phissionkorps on Dec 19, 2007 1:00:58 GMT
No.
No. They're all expensive
The plant has a very high mortality rate when young. Sometimes, just shipping it will kill it. Once it gets to about 6" across, it gets plenty easier. It's not even a slow grower or anything either, just the people that have mature plants they can take cuttings of usually only give them to their friends, so you have to know the right people. Since all the hamatas in cultivation that have been around for a while have turned out to be male thus far, there hasn't been any seed produced in "captivity", and there probably won't be for a while.
You know, a lot of the questions you ask could be found using the search function on pretty much any other forum.
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Post by glider14 on Dec 19, 2007 1:37:46 GMT
supply and demand too...the more people want it...the higher price it gets.
Alex
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Post by Guest on Dec 19, 2007 2:07:23 GMT
i see, i will look for other people
I knwo there is a search function, but i am not going to use it every time I send a message
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Post by pinglover on Dec 20, 2007 3:30:24 GMT
I suppose using the search function would have been moot this time given you recently started a thread asking a similar question on Dec 8th- icps.proboards105.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=nepenthes&thread=1197172085&page=1It would appear you didn't like the replies you received in the Dec 8th thread or this thread so does this mean you will be starting a third thread asking a similar question to avoid having to be bothered with using a search engine? Seriously, search engines are your friend. "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -Erica Jong |
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Post by Guest on Dec 20, 2007 5:52:13 GMT
Right you are! Nice catch
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Post by pinglover on Dec 20, 2007 17:52:38 GMT
I was being polite.
You already have two threads asking basically the same question. Best for you to add on to this thread or the one you originally started as opposed to starting yet a third thread. There is no need to start a third thread given you probably wouldn't like the replies you'd get there either.
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Post by Guest on Dec 22, 2007 1:12:45 GMT
uh huh, that's "nice"
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Post by glider14 on Dec 23, 2007 14:49:57 GMT
no need for sarcasm por favor....
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Post by Guest on Dec 24, 2007 2:35:21 GMT
yeah, whatever, i know you're being polite. You don't have to stress that fact. And I wasn't being mean either.
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Post by macamus3 on Jan 7, 2008 21:10:17 GMT
Why is N. hamata seed so hard to come by? Is wild seed so endangered or is the area where N. hamata grows politically unstable? I think if someone in SE Asia would collect seed and put on e-bay, he'd make a good bit of money for N. hamata seed pods. Why is it impossible to get N. hamata seed? I know there are Nepenthes guru's out there that could grow the seeds. N. hamata seedlings would probably sell very quickly if we could only get seed .
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Post by locko on Jan 7, 2008 23:17:01 GMT
Well it is pretty immoral mabey illegal to just steal seed from the wild and more so to profit from it. Hamata is already in cultivation so there is no need to take seed from the wild. Just my opinion.
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Post by trimen1000 on Jan 8, 2008 0:11:54 GMT
It's a hard deal to strike the balance between getting plants into cultivation and not putting pressure on natural populations. This is something that I've actually wondered about a lot with people getting new species and stuff into cultivation. I've considered the problem a little bit, but no ideas really work out well.
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Post by glider14 on Jan 8, 2008 0:57:32 GMT
the possibilities are endless. new hybrids. stronger forms of hamata. overall different forms of hamata. all we have now are a total of 5 hamata clones. 4 being a boring green and brown spots. witht he last of course the stunning hairy variety. however the latter is more seed grown than TC i believe. any who of the clones that have matured and flowered. all have been males. we. need. female. hamata! the variety we would get from even one batch of seeds is the enough to satisfy for a while. however there is the moral issues and the balance we have to keep with nature. but we have collected spec. nov. DA seeds and linguata and many others right?
Alex
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