It is reported on Slipper Talk Forum that Chuck Acker has sent a letter of
apology to all who purchased
his Peruflora Pk seedlings.
see: http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=29466#post29466
Apparently Chuck found out that the Peruflora Pk seedlings, already in compots
in his greenhouse, were not Pk.
With his letter of apology, Chuck included a refund cheque for the deposit made.
It was I who in 2005 warned people on orchid forums that a reliable Lima
source told me that Peruflora could not possibly propagate the number of Pk
flasks they sold from five legal Pk plants. The suggestion was made that
therefore Peruflora would have to have purchased Pk seeds from illegal plants
outside their nursery.
I received a lot of flack over this and was told that I did not know what I was
talking about.
Soon after, I received another message from Lima telling me that an enemy of
the Arias family had managed to have someone sell Manolo Pk seeds which were in
fact seeds of another Phragmipedium species.
Knowing my sources to be very reliable, I publicly announced that the
Peruflora's Pk species labels are unreliable, if seeds were purchased, and if
indeed it was true that non-Pk seeds were sold to them, the seedlings in their
flasks may not at all be Pk.
Again I was blasted for this by many, publicly and privately.
Last May while at the Redland International Orchid Festival, a very angry
Manolo Arias stormed into the sales booth (tent) I was in, directed there by
one of his friends who talked to me in the line up for the festival BBQ for
vendors.
Manolo told me that I was spreading false rumours about Peruflora when I stated
on orchid forums, which he monitors, that their Pk flasks may not contain Pk
seedlings but other species.
Well, we now know that my friends and I did not lie but told the truth and that
all who contradicted me on the forums truly did not know what they were talking
about. Believe me I take no pleasure in this. I feel terribly sorry for all who
got stung by this.
Chuck Acker did the honourable thing and I expected no less from him.
His business will not suffer, quite the opposite will result.
peter
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