Some crazy-huge rafflesianas...

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Originally Posted by Angkau Tekor

Professional nurseries can play a leading role by lowering the price of their plants to make poaching unattractive. Just imagine buying a seed grown plant of selected clone with highly desirable traits at a cheaper price than a mediocre looking poached plant. Now who will want to buy a poached plants then.....but i have my doubt this will happen any time soon though

Exactely. That's already happening, all over the world, and it happened in the past. Dionaea and sarracenia would be extinst if it was for poaching, but fortunately TC and wholesale nurseries stopped poaching. Now er are left with the urban development problem. Sorry Sooxiwei, in many years in these forums, it's the first time that I hear ideas like yours, fortunately! You sound quite negative, not realistic and superficial. I mean saying that poachers and professional nurseries are the same, jesus...

Of course, when I said about taking cuttings and seeds, it doesn't mean that 200 growers one after the other go to take cuttings every year in the same place, come on, try to understand what I mean. That doesn't happen in the real world. These countries are huge, responsible collectors will collect responsibly, probably once in their life. Another collector, somewhere else, will do the same. At least in Thailand, there are not 500 nep collectors collecting seeds and cuttings in the same place. There are a few collectors, most of them buy from professional nurseries, that propagate (mostly, not always) plants in the greenhouse, and then there are local poachers, that are villagers who know nothing about neps, they find the plants dif them all out, sell them, and the next day they try to find something else to sell. Comparing the two, sorry again, but it's crazy.

Rob-nepnut, you live there, how is the situation with growers? Do they know each other? Can they communicate, meet, take decisions, do conservation projects? This year I'll start trying to preserve the few thai nepenthes that are in danger, for example, and we are just two people...