grading snowdrops

[Gerard Oud]

While i was working in got the idea to make a video about how we grade the bulbs over here.
The machines are not state of the art but they still function well!  I can do easily 100.000 bulbs per hour!
This is just extra information for those who were at the Scottish Festival

Here is the link    and dont get seasick

cheers,

Gerard

[mark smyth]

Great to see what you do. Are these named or species bulbs?

[Gerard Oud]

These are just the single nivalis! Not all are graded this way but only where i got i lot from, you have to clean the machine after each cultivar!

Just got the idea to make a video about snowdrophunting next spring in one of my favorite woodlands. I will try to get a good quality video with probably new discoveries! I can hardly wait till next spring

[Mila]

It's interesting, but I   think we haven't got any fields for such great number of snowdrops in Russia. We get the snowdrops from Holland.

[Maggi Young]

Hello Mila, welcome to the forum!
 

[Natalia]

Greetings, Mila!
 I am pleased to welcome you! 

But over the snowdrops - you're wrong - in Russia a lot of snowdrops.

[Maggi Young]

But in Russia are  most of the snowdrops growing "wild" and not in fields to be lifted for sale?

[Susan]

Thank you Gerard, for showing us how the grading is done. 

Snowdrops are just about all out  here and we have a brief period of time to identify them!

Susan

[Mila]

natalie maybe you are right, but where have  you seen them, not natural?

[Olga Bondareva]

natalie maybe you are right, but where have  you seen them, not natural?

Welcome Mila! 
What region are you from?
Yes this machine is not useful in Russia but we have some snowdrop lovers.

[Gerard Oud]

Yes this machine is not useful in Russia but we have some snowdrop lovers.
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Maybe in a few years when they can start export from the Ucraine to the Netherlands Olga!

[Mila]

Olga, I am from Arkhangelsk. There are not any snowdrops even in our forests. And I think nobody grows thousands of them for sale. One day I tried to grow some snowdrops, but unsuccessfully.

[Mavers]

I found your video very interesting Gerard & look forward to seeing your snowdrop hunting videos next spring.

Mike

[Natalia]

Yes, we still such a machine is not useful  But it is very interesting to see such a machine, thank you, Gerard!

Mila, look in any book on the flora of Russia - or at least in popular online resources.
In Russia there are few varieties of snowdrops - but it does not matter.
But in reality, I've seen in many places snowdrops - and in the Carpathians and the Crimea, and the Caucasus ) A North Caucasus - the territory of Russia.

[Mila]

NATALIE, I live near the Polar circle and we have no snowdrops in the woods.