Wonderful! I can't wait to see what you get. I guess some of the seed is damp packed (at least from Gardens North) so presumably he does the same? I'll have to check it out...

I don't know what damp packed is?
I know the plants came as little shriveled up things still in the dormant stage. Boy have they been taking off in our PNW spring weather.

Damp packed is not dried out. Some plants won't germinate if they're allowed to dry out (the seeds that is) so they pack them in damp peat moss or sand.

I'm doomed - I went and looked at Mesa Gardens seed list. Oh boy....

Sorry Jacki ♪♪♪

I see many greenhouses in Jacki's future!

Okay Jacki, take a deep breath. You can do it.

I'm doing a trade with a grower in Nova Scotia, who only has a few Sempervivum so I'll boost her collection, plus give her a couple of Rosularia (teensy tiny ones!) and she's going to send me some Semps that she has that I don't have, plus some Orostachys spinosa! So exciting! She says hers makes lots of chicks. Mine is still sitting there looking gorgeous, but not a chick in sight. Fingers crossed that she doesn't just bloom...

Good deal Jacki! Which sempervivum are you getting in trade?

arachnoideum ssp tomentosum
ciliosum v. borissi
Icicle
More Honey
Red Beauty
Sir William Lawrence
Powelli
arachnoideum ssp. Montanum
Black
Emerald Empress
pilioscum
Silberkarneol

Awesome list Jacki.
The spinosa I had last year made lost of offsets, but the slugs ate every little bit of them.

You'll have to try growing them from seed from Mesa Gardens...

I love it - 2 addicts egging each other on!!

That is a nice list!

Hey, aren't I addicted enough? Jacki, are you throwing a guantlet down? Trying to goad me into planting seeds?

And Chris, why aren't you planting Orostachy seeds?

I just planted about 1000 semp seeds - isn't that enough?

Okay, you and Jacki win the addiction contest.

I couldn't possibly tell you how many seeds I planted as some were my own, and until they progress to being potted on I have no way to know.

I refuse to meet the Orostachys. As a matter of fact I read this whole thread with my eyes closed!

Oh look there is a mouse in this thread.

Opps, no it's not a mouse, it's Orostachys furusei.
Sorry Terri, didn't mean to make you open your eyes.

insiderart said:I refuse to meet the Orostachys. As a matter of fact I read this whole thread with my eyes closed!

Did it work?

Wow Lynn, love, love, love that one!!!

*fingers in eyes* la la la la la la la la I can't hear you!