See, my problem is I would want to keep them all.

I am so looking forward to this upcoming trip. For soooooooooooooooo many reasons!

Me too, Melissa. I'd be in heaven if a hybridizer would put the culls in a box and send them to me!

plantmanager said:Me too, Melissa. I'd be in heaven if a hybridizer would put the culls in a box and send them to me!

One (wo)man's trash, another (wo)man's treasure.

Exactly! I can't bear to throw any plants away, so I propagate everything I trim off my plants.

Wow Kevin!!
Thanks for the photos Bev!
What a treat to see I always love a sea of colorful seedlings

I also have jury duty coming up soon--don't know when just yet; wish I could give you mine Greg
Maybe Ohio has a special crud variant, but it's been a nasty flu season all over
Sorry for all y'all that have been trying to recover from this gift that keeps on giving.

Two more things.

If you are driving here could you stick a folding/ lawn chair in the trunk? I have seats for ~12-15 but it would be great if you could bring an extra to help out with seating.

Second, if you could buddy up on vehicles for the day of the clinic that would help my driveway to hold everybody. We can get three rows of cars in the driveway and that should get us all in fairly well.

Also wanted to tell you I was at Robert's Crossing on Sunday night (thanking my PT for getting my neck into shape) and I had the Blackened Shrimp that is one of our dinner options. It's REALLY good although ALL the options are good ones.

Kevin

Kevin, we could drop off the chairs we would normally sit on at your place to help with at least 2 more seats for special somebodies.

I have several folding chairs so can bring extras if needed.

Shouldn't be a problem for me to bring my own chair.

Don't forget to pot up your best seedling and bring it to the meeting. A special prize will be given to the winner of the competition! I am NOT competing.

Should be fun!!

Kevin

just one seedling per person? can I send photos
dang, will someone share photos of the entries and the winner?

We will take photos of the seedling entries Dirt, and post them here. This is going to be fun. I don't think there is a limit of entries one can make.

No, the more the merrier! I said ONE but I'm hoping for AT LEAST one from each hybridizer. MYSTERY PRIZE too!

Kevin

Come all of you. You don't want to miss out on all the fun, and the MYSTERY Prize.

Spoiler: it's a pair of golden tweezers mounted on a trophy stand

Sol,

Like the idea but your guess is a little off.

Kevin

I like your guess, Sol. I'm a tweezer person and a pair is always in my hand whenever I do a look-see of my semps. You never know when a dead leaf(s) need your attention!

I to have used them for clean up as well as Hybridizing Bev. The flat tipped kind do a much better job of pulling dead leaves than can be done by hand. As a matter of fact some fir-ball just knocked a rather large raised planter onto my colony of Pacific Taffy Pink and got pumice stuck in the rosettes !!! Yet another situation that merits some tweezer work.

Yes, another reason to get those tweezers! I have them in 3 different bluntness of tips but all the tweezers are 6 inches in length. These are not the eyebrow tweezers...

Just a couple of weeks to go. I am starting to get excited here!!