67th SRGC Seed Exchange - 2013-2014

[Maggi Young]

No idea what is happening with you, Ralph - there is no record of a registration so I cannot imagine where the email came from!  I have sent you a reply to your email .

 M

[Margaret]

It's such a pleasure having the seed list to browse. Thank you everyone and especially a big thank you to you, Maggi.

[Alan_b]

If, like me, you are an electronic member who was previously registered with the forum you may have difficulty discovering what your electronic membership number is.

• If you go to the SRGC web site http://www.srgc.net/site/ first log in with your forum credentials.
• Hover your mouse/cursor over the Content tab and you should see two columns of options but this does not work on Google's Chrome browser.
• You then need to hover you mouse/cursor over 'Online Membership pages' which is at the bottom of the second column and a new column of three options appears.
• Click 'What Is My Online Membership Number And Email Address?' and finally you are there.

If you try to do this using the Chrome browser you may find that you only see the first column under Content so cannot go where you need to.  I got it to work using Internet Explorer.

Edit:  I am using the latest version of Chrome (Version 31.0.1650.57 m) on a computer running the 64-bit version of Windows 7.  I only see the first column of all the dropdown menus using Chrome as per the attached screen grab.

[Maggi Young]

Interestingly,  the dropdowns  Alan describes are visible using Chrome from this machine.
Very odd how  these things vary.

There are sometimes issues with Internet Explorer on some sites, I find.
 There is a remedy for that :
"If you are experiencing difficulties viewing a site this can sometimes be related to the browser you are using and can often be easily addressed by pressing the compatibility view button (Internet Explorer only) on the far right hand side of your address bar. The compatibility view button will look like a piece of paper torn in two. When you move your mouse over the icon the words "compatibility view" will be displayed. Click the icon and the website will then run on compatibility view, this often resolves the issue of menus and/or options disappearing."

I will attach a screengrab here of the way the menu should appear to allow e-subscribers  to check their membership  numbers

[Alan_b]

Yes, Maggi, it is odd how these things vary, and the bane of anybody who constructs web sites.  I have edited my original post with some technical details and a screen grab of what I see, or don't see.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Alan.

[maggiepie]

Maggi, this is very weird.
I did as you said to get my online e-membership number 2 days ago and it worked exactly as it was supposed to.
I got my number and registered and did the order with some help from yourself.
Today after reading Alan's post, I went back again and the online membership is no longer showing below IRG.
I logged out to see if that made a difference but it did not.
When I tried to log back in it would not recognise my password so I had to get a new one.
Don't think my Chrome has been updated in the past few days as I check regularly and it is the latest version.

Gremlins?

[Maggi Young]

I have no idea Helen.  I have experienced temporary blips of that sort from time to time.
Cannot see why it would have resulted in you resetting your password though.
However, none of this has any bearing on the working of the Seed Exchange - anyone who does not know their number, whether postal or electronic, can do what they always do -  send me an email! 

[fleurbleue]

Poor Maggi    Hard Sunday for you!

[fermi de Sousa]

I think I've managed to send in allocations for myself and Will, with Maggi's help as usual
Hopefully the payment went through as well
cheers
fermi

[Maggi Young]

Many happy returns of the day, fermi! 

My birthday gift from you would be to have you read the instructions and cope all by yourself now you are such a big boy!! 

[Maggi Young]

Hi,
I've pointed out a small mistake in the seed list:
Item 4300: tropaeolum sajanensis. This species doesn't exist. Might be trollius sajanensis?
JP

I hear from the Seed Packeting manager, Ian Pryde, that no seed of the alleged "Tropaeolum sajanensis" has actually materialised as yet!

[Anthony Darby]

Now that I have identified it, I have a few seeds of Zephyranthes primulina, which I see is on the list. Is it too late to send seed?

[Maggi Young]

I don't know, Anthony - I will email Ian Pryde to ask him.

[bainbridges]

Hello and Happy new year to all our seedaholics.

Here's our first Seed Distribution team report for 2014.

We set up the 16 picking trays on 29th December; only 55,000 packets of seed at this stage, and a bigger list than for several years.  Seems to have been a good seed collecting year in general....

This weekend the Edinburgh hardy folk got going, and we have picked, packed and posted the first four hundred donor requests, so we hope donors will start receiving their seed in a few days time.  We'll be hard at work for the next three weekends, and hopefully will have all the requests finished by the end of January.

Please don't ask yet where your seeds are; we only pick at weekends and it will be a couple of weeks yet before all the main requests are dealt with.

If you've not submitted a request yet, you still have time, but make sure it's in by 15th January, and do give us alternatives to pick from as some rare or popular seeds are in short supply, and have already run out.

Hope you all get (most of!) the seeds you want

Best wishes from the Distribution Team

Ian and Carole Bainbridge