Hugely appreciated!
Should there be a BCSS Guide to Foundationing a Greenhouse to save these sorts of individual queries?
Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
Euan Arnott (Cheshire, UK)
Novice grower renewing his teenage enthusiasm. Rapidly burgeoning Lithops, Lophophora, and Ferocactus populations, plus a few old stalwarts which have acompanied me through the years!
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
I vote yes
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- EddieA
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
What we need are some serious FAQs here.
Everybody has to search read lots of posts to extract relevent data or make a new enquiry.
This knowledge needs to be preserved and made more accessible
Along with info about compost, cat litter etc etc
Eddie
Everybody has to search read lots of posts to extract relevent data or make a new enquiry.
This knowledge needs to be preserved and made more accessible
Along with info about compost, cat litter etc etc
Eddie
Special interests: Aloes, Crassula, Epiphytic Cacti & Hoya
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
Sounds like 'direction: library'
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
Check out the Library EddieEddieA wrote:What we need are some serious FAQs here.
Everybody has to search read lots of posts to extract relevent data or make a new enquiry.
This knowledge needs to be preserved and made more accessible
Along with info about compost, cat litter etc etc
Eddie
Bill
Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
We could but then it would be one less thing to discuss and offer an opinion on.LithopsRule wrote:Hugely appreciated!
Should there be a BCSS Guide to Foundationing a Greenhouse to save these sorts of individual queries?
Bill
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
I sort of agree that it is nice to actually interact when one has a question to ask, but there are sometimes topics that keep getting revisted and it seems a lot of effort for all the kind people who responded to me to do so again and again?
I personally think a FEW BCSS Guides on really common topic would be a useful addition to the repertoire.
Then people could still ask the questions, but start from a position of having read the previous guidance rather than starting from scratch each time?
I (for one) would like a BCSS Germination guide too.
The "Library" is just a compendium of old threads containing useful info, is it? To me this is NOT quite the same as a "Guide". It is quite cumbersome (and sometimes confusing) to read through great strings of posts, especially for beginners, and surely encouraging beginners is a key aim of the BCSS.
Rather than just advocate, why don't I get off my rear and act, I hear you cry? Well said...!
My current plan is to write a few of my own "Guides" based on the wonderful accumulated wisdom in things like the "Library" and then share freely with whoever feels a summary would be useful (with due acknowledgement for all the kind contributors whose suggestions I am simply summarising succinctly). If anyone else wants to do so ttoo, then we would have spontaneous Guides witten for free...
Yours, E
I personally think a FEW BCSS Guides on really common topic would be a useful addition to the repertoire.
Then people could still ask the questions, but start from a position of having read the previous guidance rather than starting from scratch each time?
I (for one) would like a BCSS Germination guide too.
The "Library" is just a compendium of old threads containing useful info, is it? To me this is NOT quite the same as a "Guide". It is quite cumbersome (and sometimes confusing) to read through great strings of posts, especially for beginners, and surely encouraging beginners is a key aim of the BCSS.
Rather than just advocate, why don't I get off my rear and act, I hear you cry? Well said...!
My current plan is to write a few of my own "Guides" based on the wonderful accumulated wisdom in things like the "Library" and then share freely with whoever feels a summary would be useful (with due acknowledgement for all the kind contributors whose suggestions I am simply summarising succinctly). If anyone else wants to do so ttoo, then we would have spontaneous Guides witten for free...
Yours, E
Euan Arnott (Cheshire, UK)
Novice grower renewing his teenage enthusiasm. Rapidly burgeoning Lithops, Lophophora, and Ferocactus populations, plus a few old stalwarts which have acompanied me through the years!
Novice grower renewing his teenage enthusiasm. Rapidly burgeoning Lithops, Lophophora, and Ferocactus populations, plus a few old stalwarts which have acompanied me through the years!
Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
See I am clever, for instance I often get emails from members of the public about what can they do with the giant cactus in the conservatory, which usually turn out be Euphorbias, so I have a draft email that I just tailor to the individual.LithopsRule wrote:I sort of agree that it is nice to actually interact when one has a question to ask, but there are sometimes topics that keep getting revisted and it seems a lot of effort for all the kind people who responded to me to do so again and again?
http://www.bcss.org.uk/seedraising.phpLithopsRule wrote: I personally think a FEW BCSS Guides on really common topic would be a useful addition to the repertoire.
Then people could still ask the questions, but start from a position of having read the previous guidance rather than starting from scratch each time?
I (for one) would like a BCSS Germination guide too.
Don't let me discourage you Euan, have a go and see what you come up with and if it's good enough we'll see if we can't find a home for it, be careful though you might find yourself lumbered with a jobLithopsRule wrote: The "Library" is just a compendium of old threads containing useful info, is it? To me this is NOT quite the same as a "Guide". It is quite cumbersome (and sometimes confusing) to read through great strings of posts, especially for beginners, and surely encouraging beginners is a key aim of the BCSS.
Rather than just advocate, why don't I get off my rear and act, I hear you cry? Well said...!
My current plan is to write a few of my own "Guides" based on the wonderful accumulated wisdom in things like the "Library" and then share freely with whoever feels a summary would be useful (with due acknowledgement for all the kind contributors whose suggestions I am simply summarising succinctly). If anyone else wants to do so ttoo, then we would have spontaneous Guides witten for free...
Yours, E
Bill
- EddieA
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
Thanks Bill and co. but I have looked at the library on many occasions and I agree with Euan on this
The library as presented so far cannot compare with a series of good FAQs or guides.
Eddie
The library as presented so far cannot compare with a series of good FAQs or guides.
Eddie
Special interests: Aloes, Crassula, Epiphytic Cacti & Hoya
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- LithopsRule
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Re: Advise on new greenhouse and foundations
As Bill says, it is the TIME it takes to write comprehensive instructions/information that is the killer...
I had in mind a germination table where there were columns for things like:
Species (or often just Genus!)
Seed lifetime estimate (by rough catalogies like "Long" and "Short", where known)
Germination temperature range (maybe indicated by letters - e.g. A = 65 to 75degC, etc.)
Photoblasticity (light requirement for germination itself) and hence Seed Depth (surface / buried)
Dormancy-breaking (often pretty key and can be a real mystery to non-afficionados)
Typical germination rates, times, patterns for good seed
Relative growth rate (Fast, Medium, Slow)
Damp-tolerance of emerged seedlings (relative measure)
Comments (e.g. inhibited by Chinsol, how to test for good seed, etc.)
We seem to have wandered of-topic from my new greenhouse, though...?
I had in mind a germination table where there were columns for things like:
Species (or often just Genus!)
Seed lifetime estimate (by rough catalogies like "Long" and "Short", where known)
Germination temperature range (maybe indicated by letters - e.g. A = 65 to 75degC, etc.)
Photoblasticity (light requirement for germination itself) and hence Seed Depth (surface / buried)
Dormancy-breaking (often pretty key and can be a real mystery to non-afficionados)
Typical germination rates, times, patterns for good seed
Relative growth rate (Fast, Medium, Slow)
Damp-tolerance of emerged seedlings (relative measure)
Comments (e.g. inhibited by Chinsol, how to test for good seed, etc.)
We seem to have wandered of-topic from my new greenhouse, though...?
Euan Arnott (Cheshire, UK)
Novice grower renewing his teenage enthusiasm. Rapidly burgeoning Lithops, Lophophora, and Ferocactus populations, plus a few old stalwarts which have acompanied me through the years!
Novice grower renewing his teenage enthusiasm. Rapidly burgeoning Lithops, Lophophora, and Ferocactus populations, plus a few old stalwarts which have acompanied me through the years!