A well equipped dutch grower tried a few years ago to set up saffron cultures in Afganistan. He failed, mainly because growing opium was much more profitable! Ben Zonneveld 2017-09-14 13:00 GMT+02:00 <pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>: > Send pbs mailing list submissions to > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > pbs-request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > pbs-owner@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." > > > List-Post:<mailto:pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > List-Archive:<http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Saffron, Possibly Replacing Opium in Afghanistan > (Russell Stafford, Odyssey Plants) > 2. Re: Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 (Cody H) > 3. Re: Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 (Cody H) > 4. Re: Amaryllidaceae Book! (Lee Poulsen) (Nhu Nguyen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:51:59 -0400 > From: "Russell Stafford, Odyssey Plants" <russell@odysseybulbs.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Saffron, Possibly Replacing Opium in Afghanistan > Message-ID: > <mailman.116.1505307154.517.pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > While it's true that mass-market saffron is dominated by one clone, > numerous genotypes and phenotypes occur in cultivation. Some are > very floriferous. No genetic engineering necessarily required! > > https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/… > > Russell > > At 07:30 AM 9/13/2017, you wrote: > >On 13/09/2017 03:39, Judy Glattstein wrote: > >>Nice BBC article about saffron growing / selling in Afghanistan. And > Iran. > > > >Here in the North West of England my saffron crocus are just > >appearing. I doubt they will flower. > > > >Stories about commercial saffron growing come round every year. The > >other tale is that it is a single cultivated clone which no one > >knows the origin of. > > > >Maybe the market is not big enough for someone to genetically > >engineer a plant that grows easily and produces lots of saffron. > >David Pilling > >http://www.davidpilling.com/ > >_______________________________________________ > >pbs mailing list > >pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > >http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Russell Stafford > Odyssey Bulbs > PO Box 382 > South Lancaster, MA 01561 > 508-335-8106 > russell@odysseybulbs.com > http://www.odysseybulbs.com/ > http://www.facebook.com/odysseybulbs/ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:14:37 +0000 > From: Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 > Message-ID: > <CAAgPc_6eiDNNknWSV2jxetROwUPvctqhREt0jDs5= > mDP2+hhxw@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Dell, > > Could I get the following: > > 1. Moraea tripetala > 4. Nerine masonorum > 8. Oxalis caprina, lilac > 9. Oxalis depressa, MV 4871 > 10. Oxalis flava, yellow > 11. Oxalis imbricata > 12. Oxalis namaquana, yellow > 13. Oxalis sp.?, yellow, ex BX 313 > 16. Strumaria tenella > 17. Tristagma 'Rolf Fiedler' > 18. Veltheimia bracteata > 19. Zephyranthes candida > 20. Zephyranthes citrina > 21. Zephyranthes minima > 22. Zephyranthes 'Prairie Sunset' > 23. Zephyranthes primulina > 24. Zephyranthes reginae > 25. Zephyranthes smallii > 26. Zephyranthes 'Tenexio Apricot' > 27. Zephyranthes grandiflora (Z. minuta) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 16:15:45 +0000 > From: Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Pacific Bulb Society BX 425 > Message-ID: > <CAAgPc_5-mxstEKX-p2WZq1Mg7UHq0Sa9e4BO15PpYtHkMq > De1A@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Whoops! Too quick on the draw there, sorry for the spam everyone. > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 9:14 AM Cody H <plantboy@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Dell, > > > > Could I get the following: > > > > 1. Moraea tripetala > > 4. Nerine masonorum > > 8. Oxalis caprina, lilac > > 9. Oxalis depressa, MV 4871 > > 10. Oxalis flava, yellow > > 11. Oxalis imbricata > > 12. Oxalis namaquana, yellow > > 13. Oxalis sp.?, yellow, ex BX 313 > > 16. Strumaria tenella > > 17. Tristagma 'Rolf Fiedler' > > 18. Veltheimia bracteata > > 19. Zephyranthes candida > > 20. Zephyranthes citrina > > 21. Zephyranthes minima > > 22. Zephyranthes 'Prairie Sunset' > > 23. Zephyranthes primulina > > 24. Zephyranthes reginae > > 25. Zephyranthes smallii > > 26. Zephyranthes 'Tenexio Apricot' > > 27. Zephyranthes grandiflora (Z. minuta) > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:30:47 -1000 > From: Nhu Nguyen <xerantheum@gmail.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Amaryllidaceae Book! (Lee Poulsen) > Message-ID: > <CAG=tLbjdA36_gBU69aJ9sn5-FcbWuTaUMaEWc8HLLPSV=v+nPQ@ > mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Lee, > > If you get permission and gather these photos, just drop them into a cloud > storage space or email them to me and I can put them on the Wiki. We'd need > information about locality or who grew them of course. > > Nhu > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:27 AM, Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> > wrote: > > > I would love to ask some of them who are posting photos of things I?ve > > never seen before to possibly allow their photos to be added to the PBS > > wiki/encyclopedia. (Like I recently saw photos of a pure yellow > Leontochir > > (Alstroemeria) ovallei taken in the current spectacular flowering of the > > Atacama Desert this year.) > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > ------------------------------ > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 7, Issue 14 > ********************************** > -- BJM Zonneveld Naturalis, Herbarium section Postbox 9517 Vondellaan 55, 2300RA Leiden The Netherlands Email: ben.zonneveld@naturalis.nl <Ben.Zonneveld@naturalis.nl>, telf 071-7517228 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…