i aint trying to be confrontational....speaking from my experience and the experience of the nep growers i talk to regularly which range from me up in the middle of nowhere in a rather harsh climate(few inches of rain from being labeled desert with extream temps in both directions) and am growing in my basement under lights to individuals growing them in greenhouses, Pyro grows alot of his plants in a crawlspace under lights and has stated he grows a hamata on a windowsill in Atlanta, not exactly a highlander paradise......
one thing to take in consideration about me is my wife and i run two newspapers, and beating around the bush aint my strong suit....prolly doesnt help that negotiations with one of the two school personnel unions is starting up and they dont have a particularly high opinion of my wife and i because even though my dad is in on of the unions we keep things pretty well down the middle and dont print just pro union/anti school board stuff.....at some point in the next couple months im going to get a late night drunken phone call from a union member threatening to run my arse out of town....happens every time....
hamata isnt CITES I listed so that aint an issue.....actually most of the CITES I CP's are fairly easy to get ahold of but the only neps listed as such is rajah and khasiana i believe, the others listed are Sarrs....
do believe the majority of Andreas's plants wind up through out Europe and relatively few here go through the headache to buy from him directly so they pay higher prices through a secondary seller(i have gotten plants directly from him and via secondary sellers)........i know of more hamatas for sale in the last year than i saw jacs for sale and no one claims jac is terribly difficult, do believe atleast half a dozen of those hamatas went for significantly less than $100.....
do believe the vast majority of plants as far as numbers coming into the US are from across the other ocean and one of them who had hamatas in TC i believe had to destroy all his stock both in TC and plants that had been removed from TC due to some legal issue which is what caused the shortage that has extended these last few years......they are getting more common once again as the production is getting back up.....so the first ones coming are more expensive due to supply and demand......its the way the world works.......its not due to them being extreamly difficult and touchy other than maybe being sensitive to humidity when young.....
one thing to take in consideration about me is my wife and i run two newspapers, and beating around the bush aint my strong suit....prolly doesnt help that negotiations with one of the two school personnel unions is starting up and they dont have a particularly high opinion of my wife and i because even though my dad is in on of the unions we keep things pretty well down the middle and dont print just pro union/anti school board stuff.....at some point in the next couple months im going to get a late night drunken phone call from a union member threatening to run my arse out of town....happens every time....
hamata isnt CITES I listed so that aint an issue.....actually most of the CITES I CP's are fairly easy to get ahold of but the only neps listed as such is rajah and khasiana i believe, the others listed are Sarrs....
do believe the majority of Andreas's plants wind up through out Europe and relatively few here go through the headache to buy from him directly so they pay higher prices through a secondary seller(i have gotten plants directly from him and via secondary sellers)........i know of more hamatas for sale in the last year than i saw jacs for sale and no one claims jac is terribly difficult, do believe atleast half a dozen of those hamatas went for significantly less than $100.....
do believe the vast majority of plants as far as numbers coming into the US are from across the other ocean and one of them who had hamatas in TC i believe had to destroy all his stock both in TC and plants that had been removed from TC due to some legal issue which is what caused the shortage that has extended these last few years......they are getting more common once again as the production is getting back up.....so the first ones coming are more expensive due to supply and demand......its the way the world works.......its not due to them being extreamly difficult and touchy other than maybe being sensitive to humidity when young.....