A sowing project

[orchidsworld]

- Please delete if not appropriate -

I would like to share with you my project (published on a swiss crowdfunding site, in french, sorry). Hope it is ok, otherwise please delete it...

I'm fascinating by terrestrial orchids from all over the world. The problem is that iti is really difficult to find them to buy in Europa, because :

- only few people know terrestrial orchids, so not really propagated for sell
- CITES permits (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) are really restrictive, so many countries do not export anymore...

That's why I decided to start to propagate them from seeds, because seeds are not concerned by CITES and can be found more easier...

To propagate them in good conditions, special material is needed (laminar flow hood and other), but expensive... My project is to buy the right material and start to propagate terrestrial orchids.

Another part of my project will be to work on conservation and protection of indigenous orchids, in collaboration with a botanical garden in Switzerland.

So if terrestrial orchids (culture, protection and multiplication) are part of your interests, this project is for you

Please have a look there :

https://wemakeit.com/projects/multip...dees?locale=en

[orchidsworld]

As my first project was not good, not on a knwon site, not in english, I made a new one, with translation in english, and also Paypal...

You can read it there :

Lab for multiplication of terrestial orchids - Ulule

Feel free to contribute if you think this is interesting, or share it on Facebook or wherever you want )

Thanks in advance for interest

[lepetitmartien]

Just for information, François here is a good personal friend of mine and both serious and competent on the project (biology/botanical academic background).

If you can help him or talk about his project it's a good thing for all terrestrial lovers.

[Tschimm]

Thanks for bumping the thread.
@François: I'm in :-)