It is indeed Pedalo Phil and no its not a minor upgrade, some website content plus forum and gallery content is about the only thing that is guaranteed to survive. The whole platform will probably be Wordpress based, easy to use, easy to update and very configurable. ...and rife with security issue...

Have had nothing but excellent quality plants off of them.

At last we have got to the point of this thread! IanW has subjected the reader to a lot of grumbling about authority, but finally writes about the central issue here. Whilst we are (inevitably) inbreeding many of our c&s, inbreeding depression is not much in evidence. I'm not sure why you're in...

IanW, from your last two paragraphs, you appear to be doubting the existence of inbreeding depression, re-interpreting the results as evolution - a very different set of processes. The example with maize that I quoted, Jones (1924), is from a modern botany textbook (Briggs and Walters, Plant Variat...

Another important issue is the conservation implications of genetic 'drift' for taxa in cultivation (or in captivity for animals). As few as five generations or crossing cutuivated plants (or captive animals) from original wild origins has been shown to produce such genetic change as to render stoc...

It's also possible that one or both parents have simply not been discovered yet. What may await us...

Quite possibly, but either way it's pretty clear that the spelling excentric of eccentric is all but dead in modern usage.

Ali Baba wrote:Sorry Ian but you are quite incorrect, both spellings appear in Chambers and the OED

Yes, but meaning something completely different to "eccentric", which would seem to be a rather important thing to check:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/excentric

Regarding excentric see the link below. "Alternative form of eccentric." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/excentric A Wiki that can be edited by anyone and that cites it's source as a single 1913 dictionary, vs. every other modern dictionary in the world (including the more modern version o...

I agree with Tina, I've tried and failed growing this species from seed a number of times (though am now succeeding) and find that the biggest problem with them when young is simply that they don't have the water retention of other species - their long thin spindly arms dry out easily, and their tap...