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Originally Posted by Christian
And along comes Tog and he talks to me about putting together a home for bananas. Many different types, and all in a nice warm place. A place that people can visit, where bananas can be observed and studied, and above all being kept from getting lost.
So Tog’s idea about starting what he calls “ Ladang Musaceae ” – a garden for bananas (Tog: What does Ladang actually mean???) – seemed ideal. The plan now is the following: We will be sharing plant material for conservation, display, and for fun (a lot of that!!).
So basically we are trying to share plant material as we are already sharing the mutual interest in those plants. Isn’t that a good thing
Christian
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Christian and me have been chatting quite a while about 'naner issues and we enjoy our arguments tremendously which otherwise would irk the hell out of the experts out there. We share the same interest in the species and the preservation of them. This led to our idea of sharing our resources of the rare or hard to obtain species.
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Originally Posted by alpha010
That's an awesome idea! I think Tog should setup a Ladang Musaceae (from context, I believe Ladang means garden)! Maybe we all could chip in and pay for his import/export license and we all can send him our off-shoots for storage and propagation. Pay monthly dues to be used for fert, dirt, and payment for his space, time and hardship.
Although this is only a dream since he has his business and his own journeys and the things he does right now give us wonderful stories of new species, adventures and cultural insights. So, in short, I doubt he would want to pull this off and I wouldn't want to even ask him to do such. BUT, if someone else were willing to do this, I might be greatly interested in this type of "business for the love of the art" as it may open up species to the parts of the world that have not even heard of these types. It would also give many of us a piece of mind knowing that if something happens to our "kids" we have one somewhere that is a direct clone or clone of a clone that upon request we could have our dead one replaced in 2 weeks or less. Or we can just visit and contribute to this place just to admire the beauty and our own sense of grandeur!
I'm all with you, Christian, it would be a good thing. Albeit hard to pull off and maintain, but good.
Shaggy
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Shaggy,
Ladang Musaceae came about after me and my business partner, Francis Khor got into 'naners.
It is not a dream and it has become a serious commitment for the two for us with the soft launch in 2010. Priority of this project is the acquisition of
all the
Callimusa species of this region and
all the heirloom cultivars of Malaysia.
If we limit this project to the conservation of 'naners, we believe the 3 acres we have is sufficient if we keep the number of off shoots to a limit.
I will be starting a thread on
Ladang Musaceae soon.
Ladang = Field, garden or plantation in Malay. Basically it means a plot of land.