Joan, I'm not sue there is a distinction between "swap list" and "tradelist". Maybe "tradelist" is only used when referring to the COMBINED list made from each person's individual swap list.
I think of there being these lists:
- MY Plant List
- MY Swap List
- The whole group's combined tradelist / swap list.
- My "sold list"
- My "bought" list
in each swap I've been in so far, the daily increase in the number of "tickets" we get has always given me more tickets than I needed by 3-5 days into the swap.
Then I have 2-4 days with a pocket full of unused tickets, deciding whether asking for one more packet would just be wasteful.
Maybe you don't need a "Free List" so much as an easy way of saying: "Oh, go ahead, TAKE them even if you aren't sure you'll get them planted this year!" Maybe a check box that says "Don't be bashful, I've got lots!"
When I see that someone saved their own seeds and is offering ten packets, I assume they have lots ane can get more next year, but really that isn't the same thing as "Take them, please!"
I think it's desirable to include in the comment, if suspected, that: "May be cross-pollinated or infertile or chaff", or "Not sure of the ID". Or "These re-seeded heavily for me" or "May spread aggressively".
But my theory is that, any time you receive traded seeds, you should allow for the possibility that one or more of those might be true but the trader did not realize it. For example, some "aggressive, invasive" varieties in one region may be so marginal in another region that they are hard to keep alive.
