Andrew,
Thanks for your kind words, but please don't send anything until the temps warm up a bit more than they are now. Anyone who is subscribed will continue to receive gemmae as long as the plants produce, I just don't want to make promises I can't fufill, and as it now stands things are getting "iffy", and that includes you buddy: you have been very patient waiting for me to get a breather, and I appreciate that.
Next season I will be cutting the lights back much earlier. I have learned to follow my own advice, LOL.
Nothing went out today since there was no mail, but I hope to have some stuff in the mail tomorrow. The gemmae has been in the fridge for over a week and should be IMMEDIATELY planted. Some will make it, others won't but considering the temps here I had no alternative.
It has been a great pleasure for me to share with you all, and hopefully introduce you to these very remarkable plants. The real test for you all will be over the summer. As I have said, some of the pygmys start to look bedraggeled over the summer when they go dormant and stop growing. It is easy then to neglect them, and this is precisely the time they want the most attention. I have a pot of D. occidentalis var microscapa that I almost gave up on, since the rosettes all but disappeared: no color, no traps, just a withered surface. But I kept attentive to their needs, and now they are returning at long last, and I hope will be even more beautiful than when they were gemmalings. Don't give up on them if this happens to you!
If more gemmae are produced, they will be offered once my current waiting list of hopefuls are filled.
Once again, if anyone feels shorted in any way, please let me know. So far there have been no complaints, just a lot of happy growers. Considering the way the world turns, events like this where everyone is happy are very rare! Your donations will continue to spread plants and seed: once the weather is warmer I will have many Drosera to share, so y'all be looking towards expanding your current capabilities!