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Being a Responsible CP Grower
Thanks to the efforts of several very dedicated CP-lovers,
many rare plants which were once impossible to obtain are
finally being collected and becoming available, sometimes in very limited
quantities. Many of these are rare because
they grow in very hard to reach areas in countries with few CPers.
Some of them are very difficult to grow.
If you are lucky enough to get your hands on
any of these species, PLEASE do your best to keep them alive and distribute
them. I've encountered quite a few inexperienced growers very anxious
to get their hands on rare plants only to neglect them or slowly kill them
because they cannot provide proper growing conditions. If you're
one of these people, please find a more suitable home for these plants so
they can receive proper care and be propagated. I know it's difficult
to let go of such a rare plant but, as a responsible CP grower, one should
exercise selflessness when dealing with species new to cultivation. Once
they've been propagated to decent numbers and have found their way into "experts"
collections or have been mass produced by tissue culture, try again as much
as you'd like. Why? Well, who knows how long it will be before
someone else will return to the same location to collect more of that rare
species you've hoarded and killed?! I don't mean to discourage beginners
at all but I speak from experience. In the 80's, I was able to obtain
some plants which were new to cultivation. While I was very successful
with several, I did not make much of an effort to propagate and distribute
them and, as a result, when I went away to college and my collection suffered,
these clones were lost. Even several plants which were once
common in cultivation (eg. D.capensis 'Crestate') are absent from most
collections today. Please be a responsible CP grower by keeping your
plants alive and give extras to other CPers who will do the same! If
you decide you want to give up your boring old pitcher plant collection in
favor of the much more interesting sundews, please make sure your plants
find a new home where they will be well taken care of!
If you are serious about tissue culturing CP on a non-profit basis, please
drop me a line.
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