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We discussed a bunch of different things before settling on a way to do this spring swap/trade, so I decided to cut down on the confusion by starting a new thread. Please see http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/555678/
I'd been thinking about offering to host an AV swap this spring, but I thought I'd post about it now just to gauge interest & generate some feedback.
Basically, a swap would work like this: Everyone who has signed up sends AV leaves from their favorites (labeled, please!) to me by a certain date and includes return postage. If you send 5 pairs of leaves, you get 5 back. If you send 10 pairs of leaves, you get 10 back. I could try to take preferences into account when dividing up the leaves, but basically you'd get an assortment of varieties in return for what you send in. A swap costs the same amount of postage as 2 individual trades, and you could end up with leaves from 6 or 8 different people.
Sending more than one set of leaves of the same variety would be fine, so you don't have to start with 10 varieties in order to get 10 varieties in return. Maybe we could limit duplicates to, say, half the number of people in the swap... so if we have 10 people signed up, you can send up to 5 pairs of leaves that are the same variety.
We should probably also set a maximum number of leaves... what do you think? 20 pairs?
At first I was thinking of doing this just with named varieties, but we've probably all got a couple of really irresistable "noids"... Would you participate in a swap where noid's were allowed? We could set a limit on the number of noids... say, no more than 5 pairs of leaves from unnamed (noid, or "no ID") varieties. That way, somebody with only 5 un-named AVs could still participate, and somebody who sent in 20 named varieties would still get 15 named ones in return plus 5 noids. Does that seem reasonable?
I'm thinking it *might* work with plantlets, but leaves might be easier because I think they could take the longer transit time of being sent to the host and then sent again to the recipients better than plantlets could... maybe somebody with more experience shipping AVs could advise on this point. As some of you know, I tend to be a little overprotective when it comes to entrusting plants to the USPS, lol. Or we could swap 1 or 2 plantlets along with our leaves, just to give it a try without risking a bunch of little plantlets that we spent all winter growing.
So... give me some feedback! :-)
This message was edited Nov 7, 2005 6:46 PM
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