Plant project- reviving the flask/seedling project idea

[camille1585]

Last summer/fall we were discussing what sort of projects we could do, as a change from the usual projects. For one to spice things up a bit, and secondly with so many people participating (40+), a normal project has become an organisational nightmare.

One idea we had was to do a seedling project, which would be more long term. How long term depends on how quickly the selected plant develops. The most logical choice is to get flasks from Ecuagenera at shows, since they travel to shows frequently, and all over the place. However, if we do it this way we need to get the ball rolling, to pick a species (that meets temperature/size criteria as usual), and decide how exactly we are going to do this. The advantage is that the organizing is minimal compared to the usual projects. We'd probably just do a poll to decide which species we want. This would likely need to be done within the next month so there is time to preorder.

1) we need to see who is going to which shows, and so who can pick up stuff. (US is easy with so many shows and OB members, EU and CAN not so much).

2) One issue is that it will be only a few people paying, who will then have to dispatch plants. So we need to trust complete strangers for the most part that they will pay up.

Thoughts? And who's interested?