Leftwood pointed out in a TreeMail that Wikipedia wasn't the only source that uses the "without human intervention" definition of OP. I think he might have implied that botanists (pure scientists) might use the term differently from horticulturalists (more inte4rested in real world or practical things to do with plants).
I think he also said that "promiscuously pollinated" has a technical meaning in some field.
So far I'm only finding references to "promiscuous pollinators" - plants that let themselves be pollinated by a wide range of insc ts, or maybe unselective insects that don't c are WHERE they find nectar ... or something lascivious like that.
But I know that I don't know about "PP". I thought that "Landrace Joseph" invented the term for encouraging genetic variety within an adaptable seed population to be used in a stressful micro-climate. Like Woofie, Joseph also considers the "wind and insects" meaning to be the common-sense one, but he's willing to call it PP instead.
http://garden.lofthouse.com/is...
Anyway, let me apologize again for thinking that the way seed catalogs and I use the term "OP" is the "right way" and implying that the "wind and bees" usage is a "wrong way".
I'll try to hold down on the long-winded rants here until I understand Leftwood's points.
