Hello, Well I hope then that my yellow clivia make pods next year and then I send it to the BX for the members. Fingers crost. Warm Regards, Marie-Paule Belgium ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] expensive seeds > Since Worsleya seeds started becoming quite a bit more available this > decade, the going rate for most offerings has been in the $3 to $5 per > seed range. I've seen it reach as high as $10 per seed. I have never > seen it get as low as the $1 per seed price that a New Zealander was > charging back in the 1990s. Clivia seeds have a much wider, but similar > range of pricing. For example, I don't think you'll find yellow-flowered > Clivia seeds for less than $1 to $2 per seed. On the other hand some of > the now most desirable Clivia seeds can get really expensive. (Although > in my opinion, some people just charge a lot more for their seed than > others do. I know a few breeders who want $10 to $20 per seed for some > of their best crosses which aren't any better or in some cases look > identical to those of other breeders who only charge $5 per seed. And > some Chinese highest quality seeds, which might not seem desirable to > many Westerner aesthetic sensibilities, can reach astronomical > [tulipmania-level] prices.) > > Some people have been able to make a killing on seeds prices by having > chosen the right expensive Clivia varieties to have purchased, meaning, > *now*, there are a lot of people worldwide who want seeds from that > variety and are willing to pay for it. But you can't always tell ahead > of time. And purposely pollinated Clivias tend to produce a lot more > seeds than open-pollinated flowers do. One guy on the Clivia list just > reported 378 seeds from one umbel of some cross that he made. Here's an > eBay listing for seeds from a green-flowered Clivia that the seller > recently sold 2 seeds of for $50 per seed! > <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll/…> > > In any case, $108 for 25 seeds is a little over $4 per seed, so hardly > unusual at all for Worsleya. In this case, if the winner wins at this > price, he or she could easily offer all of them on the Worsleya list at > $5 per seed and sell all of them in 24 hours. > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a > > Diane Whitehead wrote: >> Tomas reported on an eBay offer of 25 seeds of Worsleya from a seller >> in Brazil. There have been 11 bids, and the high bid is currently at >> $108. These are obviously very much in demand. Maybe the bidders >> should join together and share the seeds, rather than bidding each >> other up. >> >> Clivia is another genus with expensive seeds, though just of the very >> uncommon ones. I wondered if I could support any of my bad habits >> (like buying seeds) by buying an expensive Clivia and selling its >> seeds each year. My old original orange one had two stalks of a dozen >> flowers each, but only four seedpods are forming. A rare one might >> have even fewer pods. I haven't cut a pod open to see how many seeds >> are inside, but I don't see this as a way to make a lot of money. >> >> Diane Whitehead >> Victoria, British Columbia, Canada >> >> On 1-Jun-09, at 10:31 AM, Tomas Sandberg wrote: >> >>> This is really sick more than 100vbUSD for 25 seeds of Worsleya! >>> >>> Look here: >>> http://cgi.ebay.com/Worsleya-procera-seeds-RARE_W0… >>> >>> >>> > -- > --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 4120 (20090601) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com/ > > >