Post by daniella3d on Apr 5, 2019 18:34:01 GMT -5
It sounds to me as if there are 2 things going on here. Clearly for someone whose reputation and/or livelihood depends on selling the best plants, anything that is not quite good enough would devalue the currency (just as designer clothes are destroyed if they fail quality control). That is understandable.
On the other hand I hate waste and many people would be happy with those "good not not quite there" plants. If they were sold as "complex hybrid of unstated parentage" rather than "sister to XX" it is unlikely that fraudulent reselling would happen. Last year I sold off some clones of unknown parents at a fund raiser for my son's school- the people buying them wanted interesting plants but had no interest in their name, only how to look after them. Sales of this type would be useful in raising money but would not impinge on the core business and these are buyers who would not otherwise have bought any similar plant (indeed they me later want more...)
But I also want to see what each and every one will look like when mature.
When you first started to grow seedlings, did you wait until they were mature before culling them? Or did you always cull them that way? How do you know that among the hundreds of seedlings that you are culling there is not a little diamond in the rough? what makes you so sure you are not destroying Adrian Slack next generation?
Did you ever had a plant looking very blunt when not mature and turn out a stunner later one?