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Thanks for the info, André. The price has really washed...
But it looks great.
Michael

Hello André,

clearly the prices are already high...

But the effort that Alan Galloway and Bjorn Malkmus-Hussein put into the discovery of new species was not small either; the two were often on the road together.
Impressions of the Laos expedition can still be seen on Alan's page; I hope it doesn't go off after Alan died last year...
https://alangallowaybotanicals.com/travel/asia2015/laos2015/

Bjorn Malkmus-Hussein still has one of the largest Amopho collections and has always offered rel a lot in his shop years ago, but then almost completely discontinued it. I asked at the time and he said at the time that the effort with the care and the propagation was very great and the income was so low that it was not "worth it" and he changed the amorphophallus again completely to private pleasure.
Alan offered a lot of his surplus tubers in the USA and also shipped internationally, until the trouble with customs, phyto and ungrown or not grown tubers was so great that he no longer offered on ebay internally, but only for the USA. But even with the size of the market there, he could only partially achieve good prices and then only partially compensate for his expenses (travel, greenhouse, etc.), as he once wrote to me.

But somehow every private collector has the problem. For example, I spend 800 - 1000 € per year on heating costs in my conservatory and cover this only partly via offers on ebay; but since postage costs have risen so much internationally, the demand is not so great anymore....

A wide field...... Nevertheless:

Happy growing,
Bernhard.

Hello Bernhard,

yes, I know the problem. Heating costs me nothing, because I keep everything in the living room, which is heated anyway, but the light comes to me in the year already on 200 €. And then there are the other costs such as substrate etc...
You can't do the math. But for sale, araceen are certainly not the choice of choice.

Best regards,
Michael

Hello Bernhard,

I have been keeping records for 4 years and the costs are increasing every year. I see my growing interest in araceen as the reason. This will probably continue until I really have no more room for new purchases. So far I have had no customs and phyto costs but see that a phyto often 50... 200 € costs. A collective order would probably be the solution to reduce such costs, but who is willing to organize one?
For 2020, I spent €59 per month. Half of them are tubers, the rest substrate, fertilizer, pots, etc...

Greetings Olvi

Quote from »olvi2004«

... A collective order would probably be the solution to reduce such costs, but who is willing to organize one?...

We've done that before....

amorphophiles,

rareplants.eu has some on offer again after the rel were sold out quickly - still a proud price, but a great way...

http://www.rareplants.de/shop/prodtype.a... ecordPosition=1

Happy buying, Bernhard.