Arvetis Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 At this webpage, Peter Pauls Nurseries offers 8 10+ year old bulbs for $24: http://www.peterpauls.com/more_plants.html This seems like a pretty good deal. Is it for real? Has anyone here bought these bulbs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter22 Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Most people have boycotted him because of his lack of consideration when it comes to wild plants. My tip, don't buy plants from him, as most are wild collected and his products aren't the best of quality either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carolina Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 booo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyrex Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Peter; how can you be sure of that he collects his plants from the wild? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 http://gardenwatchdog.com/c/1551/ It's a fairly well known fact he wild collects - he refuses requests to visit his nursery and offers people $5 or so for every wild rhizome you can send to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arvetis Posted June 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 OK, never mind then. Sounds like a shady guy. See, that's what Internet forums are for :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanW Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq6010b.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Despite the rarity of these plants in the wild, they often have little or no protection under the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter22 Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Yeah, many sarracenia's aren't protected. Venus Flytraps are another story though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 ......because the people responsible have to be caught first. Knowing a person is guilty and proving it are two entirely different things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogier Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Peter Pauls.... :vomit: I heard too much about this guy from a lot of very reliable sources....! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Incredible that despite the decline in many VFT and Sarra populations that there can be a bounty on wild rhizomes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizzicara Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 :protest: :axed: :rock: is all i have to say about peter :smackbottom: :finger2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 There was a programme on National Geographic last year about VFT poachers. There was one specific 'cop' who's duty it was to patrol the pine savannahs in North Carolina and he kept arresting these two guys in particular. After about 4 warnings one got three months in prison I think but just went back to poaching straight away. I remember seeing the redneck on his fron porch with a few hundred flytraps, cutting them up for a herbal medicine supplier (possibly for use in a certain large Communist country whose name I won't mention). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denmark.dk Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 ARGHH...... If I was that guard.... :firing: :flames: :clubbed: :gunfirej: :rambo: :tank: :starwars: :stabbing: :saw: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike King Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 The worst is to come, there was a recent massive poaching from the famous red tube site in the Apalachicola National Forest park, all but 6 red tubes were left, 4,000 plus taken.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denmark.dk Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 WHAT!!!!!! How can they make themself do that?? Surely someone will notice, if there are some people selling lots of location S. Flavas... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike King Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Yes its true, but you get people selling p[lants like this from roadside pull ins in the USA. For me this is crime of the century having been there only 2 years ago.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denmark.dk Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Yes, I read your article in the CPS-news... It is unbelievable that a thing like this should happen to this site of them all.... Of course it is the most popular, but still ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyrex Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Money can do strange things with people. :sh**: You would think a person in the CP business would love the plants and at least show some respect to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike King Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 If any one in the US hears of red tube flavas up for sale, please let me know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 I guess it's the usual story. They will be sold to people who've never kept CPs before, at a relatively low price, but still at a massive overall profit for the dealers. Most will end up dead. It's like the caged bird trade: it's also tragic that these plants are so easy to grow and propagate legitimately, yet people still endanger the wild populations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanW Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 Now think first before you buy tubers from Australia. There are some dealers who poach, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Aidan Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 While we are on this subject, please don't buy the book 'Carnivorous Plants of the World' - Pietropaulo........the authors are the people this thread was started about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted July 1, 2004 Report Share Posted July 1, 2004 Where there's money then there'll be folk looking to extract it in as easy way as possible! I would suspect some of the 'rednecks' think we've a fairly screwed up bunch of weirdos willing to pay a nice sum for some fairly uninteresting weeds from the bogs - it ain't much good as shootin' land........... But, don't knock them too much - The market is driven by both demand and supply so we're all partly to blame as well!! Even the best of us (no names) have been caught with our hands on dodgy stock - can the not so well informed really hope to be able to say that 100% of their CPs are from 'legal/non-plundered' stock?? :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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