Hello Girls!! Whats been going on here then??!!
Apologies for not getting involved sooner but have been away on business to the Seafood Expo in Brussels - part of the "day job".
Firstly, many, many thanks to so many CPUK Forum Members who tipped me off that things were getting heated - its been frustrating not being able to respond or even to find out what the problem was!!
So...Ledge Bay doesnt exist (according to the Thead title)??!!
Thanks to those who have pointed out in this thread that it does!
So I guess thats that cleared up then??!!
Special Well done to Marcus B for recalling that Allen Lowrie once sold these seeds!!
I can confirm he did....and I bought some! I reckon it was back in sometime around 2003-2005??? I remember phoning him up and having a long chat with him about these seeds ....and a very interesting chat it was as ever with Allen! Ceph seeds werent that frequent on his Lists so when I saw them on there, I just had to have a go. The name on the seed packet and in the catalogue at the time was.......drum roll.......Ledge Bay, WA. And I am pretty sure that the word "Giant" was on the pack too...which is why I then transcribed all this info onto my seed pot label over a decade ago.
I then sowed the seed....nature then grew the seed.....and I now have a healthy, mature plant that I only know as "Ledge Bay, Giant"....so thats what I called it! No intention to mislead....apologies to anyone who feels they have been, or is still offended in any way.
I certainly trust Allens labelling descriptors 100% and have no resason to doubt anything he told me, then or since.
A couple of years ago I took some leaf pulls from my mother plant grown from this seed and one of them is for sale on ebay now. Its called C.follicularis "Triffid Ledge Bay Giant" and I think thats as good and as accurate a descriptor as I can give.
In terms of the use of the word "Giant", well thats what I had originally labelled it up as over a decade ago, but in reality the pitchers of my mother plant are indeed bigger than most of my other other ceph clones including my Slacks Giant, Hummers Giant and German Giant!! So, I think I am entitled to call it, or continue to call it, "Giant", arent I??
Hope that this brief explanation is acceptable?
Cheers
Andy