I had asked this before but it has not been answered so I will ask again.

I can edit everything in my swap list except the name of the plant. I made a simple typographical error, but there is no way to edit the name of the plant. It's okay if I delete entirely and re-enter but I wonder why that field is not editable?



And please, where is this icon that people are talking about?

Greene, i agree about editing the name of the plant, I had the same experience.

The icon is on your plant list (not the swap list) over on the right side -- looks like 2 curved arrows, one above the other; it lets you put a plant in that list directly into your swap list.

Thanks @Weedwhacker! I'll check it out.

I'll see what I can do to make the name editable.

I have been going back and forth on joining this. There is still space at this time. I want to get my seeds out to others and yesterday, I typed a list of the species I have. How do others divide really small seed?

Looking at the pictures above, I am guessing people prefer the little clear bags? I need to buy some, if so.

I have been reading through this thread, trying to wrap my brain around everything. I hope I am understanding it all. I have not participated in a seed swap or trade.

For the most part I am interested in native to US (Preferably Iowa) seed, but maybe would like a few veggies. Maybe this has been asked, but is it ok if I end up not wanting as many as others might want of my stock and I still send that out?

You can certainly send out more than you get back. In fact I can see sometimes some folks wanting to send out seeds just for donation and get nothing in return.

@RickCorey has a good way to divide tiny seeds. One of his many suggestions was to use the "smidge, pinch, dash" measuring spoons. Here is a set I received for Christmas.

I've started entering, but need to take many notes at home about how-many-pkts and approximate sizes.

When I go 110% bonkers-crazy with small quantities, I will sometimes dish up several packets with a small spoon (1/16th tsp, 1/32nd, or even 1/64th), then WEIGH the packets, and even-off the weights of the heaviest and lightest pkts, so each is fairly equal in size.

However, let me stress that even I think that's a crazy degree of O. Seed D.

A little O. Seed D. is fine, but there is such a thing as going TOO far with nit-picky-ness.

On the other hand, I know people who carefully COUNT OUT exactly 20 petunia seeds.
Their eyes must be SO much better than mine!

Thanks again for running a beta test!

Rick, you should grow beans (like me) -- they're easy to count

But not very many beans fit into 2x3" Ziplocs, and I have thousands of those to use up!

My face fell about a mile the first time I bought a half-pound of some large seeds. I thought I would have a lifetime supply! Instead, "a few trades".

On the bright side -- that didn't constitute a "lifetime" !!

RickCorey said:I've started entering, but need to take many notes at home about how-many-pkts and approximate sizes.

When I go 110% bonkers-crazy with small quantities, I will sometimes dish up several packets with a small spoon (1/16th tsp, 1/32nd, or even 1/64th), then WEIGH the packets, and even-off the weights of the heaviest and lightest pkts, so each is fairly equal in size.

However, let me stress that even I think that's a crazy degree of O. Seed D.

A little O. Seed D. is fine, but there is such a thing as going TOO far with nit-picky-ness.

On the other hand, I know people who carefully COUNT OUT exactly 20 petunia seeds.
Their eyes must be SO much better than mine!

Thanks again for running a beta test!

I agree. This is why exact counts and weights are permitted. Small seeds are nearly impossible to count out to most any double-digit-or-higher number.

Yeah and you don't have to have scientific precision, either, if you don't want to, or can't. If you say they will get a pinch of seeds, then that should be fine. The recipient will know ahead of time that they're getting a "pinch," whatever that means. Don't overthink the measurement field, rather consider it to be helpful info to let the other trader know what they're likely to get.

Sempervivum seed is like dust particles. No way would I be able to count them. The pinch method makes sense.

I can remember a time when I thought petunia seeds were the tiniest thing imaginable... then I ran into some of the small-as-dust-particle seeds

@Dave, I noticed on my list that 2 of them aren't aphabetically...I deleted them and added again and the same thing happened

Dave
I just entered a new flower to my seed list and it is not (blue) clickable , all the others are ??
((Mullen pinks Angle's blush))

I agree. "Approximate" is the only reasonable approach.

"Reasonable" is not any one of my middle names, but you convinced me NOT to re-weigh or re-measure pkts I've already divided.

If I can find my notes, they might get measurements like "heaping 1/6th tsp, approx 75 seeds".

Otherwise, "pinch".

P.S. Dave, this might be intentional to allow people to type in any name they wish, but6 I noticed that I could enter the same plant twice. I THINK I added both from My Plant List with the "recycle" button.

Pak Choy (Brassica rapa 'Ching Chiang')

I LOVE the recycle image for seed trading! Great choice.


P.S. For uncountable seeds, I sometimes base my count on whatever the pkt said, divided by the number of pkts I split it into. Inaccurate, I know, but that's when I started "evening-up" the weights of some seed types.

A few times, I looked up "seeds per gram", weighed the packets as exactly as I could, and then multiplied.

I say again: I'm a total lunatic when it comes to seeds! Don't consider any of my suggestions to be anything a REASONABLE trader would do!

Cinda some of mine aren't clickable either