Just my opinion, as a collector and donator. As with all things, within reason. For BX, probably not potatoes from the supermarket, but indigenous Andean tuber crops that aren't easily available? Plants that grow associated with geophytes or are closely related? Like some Bulbines or Pelargoniums that are fibrous rooted but go dormant with no succulence, a fibrous rooted caudiciform or orchid? Geophyte type structures from non-geophytes (stem bulbils or tuberlets? For the SX, the same. I wouldn't want the SX or BX to be dominated by non-geophytes, but I would also prefer that donators not shy away from sending associated plants, or needing to delve into the technicalities of what is, and is not a geophyte. The way it is now, and has been for a while, is a vast majority of geophytes, with a handful of non-geophytes, and that works for me. I understand the desire for purity, especially if someone is inexperienced, and doesn't recognize, to pick an example, that Pachypodium is not a geophyte, and may be dismayed to receive a caudex instead of a tuber, but it is easy to check and investigate the offerings. On a personal note, I don't donate to other groups, so the small number of geophyte associated plants I end up with excess of generally get donated to the BX, since it is so much more effort to sell or distribute using other methods (off BX offers). Robert Mist turning into light rain in San Francisco, too many geophyte rarin' to go as Indian Summer begins. On Tue, Sep 9, 2025, 6:15 AM Eric via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > I agree with Robert, clearly the SX and BX is the reason most of are here. > Limiting the exchanges seems an extreme. We don’t want to tax our seed and > bulb exchange chairs by adding extra steps. If you don’t want the non > bulbous seed or plants, please ignore it and move on. Eliminating some of > the more unique seed and plant I have acquired because they don’t produce > true bulbs is short sighted. Obviously, if unsure what you want to send in > will be welcome ask the Chairs of the exchanges or even the entire group to > find if there is interest. All of us grow many more plants that aren’t bulb > producing we’d like to share. > Just my 2 cents > Eric Duma > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 8, 2025, at 7:16 PM, JOYCE MILLER via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…