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Originally Posted by Tindomul
...... To my chagrin I often buy plants that don't grow well in my conditions, I try to modify my conditions the best I can, sometimes I am successful, sometimes not. ........
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Eons ago it seems, I too like most novice growers, tried a little of everything and basically "tried to fit a square peg in a round hole" many times. I very quickly learned it was VERY expensive to create an environment conducive to the growing of many of the species outside of my natural environment, and I was not related to Warren Buffett!
So I specialized as I discovered that within the genus which grew well for me, there were hundreds of species which were all very different in flower characteristics. At one time, I grew almost all the Cym species but a handful, and when I found that the few not thriving needed different conditions, I placed them with other growers who had the conditions these warmer growing species wanted. Even within a genus, there are different cultural conditions needed and I never wanted to be responsible for killing a species.
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