Project 7 (Mystery Project) Sign-up and Discussions

[cb977]

[dgenovese1]

Boy...I wasn't away but for a few hours and I've got pages to catch up on...
I can appreciate the idea of keeping it simple, with one plant choice, as it does seem to be looking like a lot of work for Suzanne; however I appreciate even more the fact that the temperature thing is being thoughtfully considered. After all, we are a worldwide forum with folks from just about every climate zone and with different knowledge levels. Using the different temperatures would be more inclusive to all.
I really want to participate and am also ready to buy, buy, buy...but then again ...there's always room for 1 more orchid, or 2, or 3...
Let me know if there's something I can do to help Suzanne...I'm a newbie to this project thing, but I'm a quick learner.

[cb977]

LOL...David, you'll see

This thing is gonna snowball quickly...they always do!

I do most of the organizing portion of it but everybody involved pitches in...it's truly amazing!

[quiltingwacko]

This would be my first project and I will just wait and listen and see what happens.....

[flhiker]

Well I'm already looking for warm/hot grower for the the list. Species only right?

[cb977]

I say yes to species only. Hybrids open up too many doors...at least with a species, we know what to expect

When I'm finished cooking dinner for the in-laws I'll go back through our previous lists of plants that didn't make it to the polls in the past and make them easily accessible to everybody

[Roly0217]

Species only sounds great. That way I get to add some more species to my collection.

[cb977]

I've put a lot of thought into this and I think we'd be putting too much work on any vendor. They've all been great to us but I think that we'd be taking advantage of their niceness. They will already be doing extra work by changing the identifying info on each invoice.

I'd much prefer for us to do the work...we go for plants on the smaller side, they don't necessarily have to be minis

[stonedragonfarms]

I guess just let us know what direcftion we're going for this one. I am all for a mystery plant, but I still feel voting on species defeats the spirit of the project.
Adam

[Roly0217]

Sue let's go back to the original idea then. You select the plants that didn't make it from previous projects and put them in a poll. We'll vote on them without knowing which one is which and we then buy them from a designated vendor or vendors in case one vendor doesn't have enough for everyone participating on the project. Is there such as orchid that will grow under most conditions and that vary from cool to warm??? or maybe we can just have one on each category and one vendor for each category. In other words; one verdor that will supply those with cool grower plants another one for intermediate plants and another one for warm plants. You would direct us to them and we will purchase the designated plant.