Ummm... now you are getting me seriously confused. I thought the whole point of these named cultivars is that they are all genetically identical going back to some originally selected seedling. In other words, my 'PowWow White' should be genetically identical to every other 'PowWow White' on the planet, because they all are divisions (or, i suppose, tissue culture propagations) of the same plant.
But somebody is selling 'PowWow White' seeds? Those seeds aren't going to produce the same plants as the original 'PowWow White'. Their flowers may be white, they may have some of the same plant traits, but they aren't going to be the same.
Now I am wondering just what the heck plants I just put into my Moon Garden. They came from the nursery, they were labeled 'PowWow White' - but are they divisions (or asexual propagations) of the real (original) plant, or seedlings of it (or seedlings of seedlings of seedlings of it....
)?
(Not that I am against seed
strains, mind you. Not at all. Nor am I adverse to seed starting. I just get seriously disturbed when the boundaries seem to be blurred, as they are here.)
