Roosterlorn said:Rick, if you were a small subcontracted farmer with 100 acres worth of dug lily bulbs in crates that 'The Company' says has PlMoV and are currently on reject status, what would you suppose the most likely outcome is? Scrap them at a huge loss, negociate to sell for less to try and break even, or, try and pedal them to somebody else on the sly.
Not sure what you are getting at here: what would
I do, or what would
they do?
I'm not like the general society today and don't sleep well if I do something wrong, or even if I am unjustly accused of doing something wrong. Heck, it's now a very rare thing that I correct any factual information in the data base or in forums here (except the Lilies forum). People just get mad if their misinformation is exposed. I sleep much better just letting that be. The alternative is spending an hour crafting an ever so gentle reply to correct a fact, and then get an angry retort or just ignorance, and I lay awake at night totally disgusted.
My point in that post is that, if I gather the ideas here correctly, cultivars have a greater probability as time progresses of becoming corrupted or having imposters, and/or becoming virused. The older a cultivar is, the more careful one must be, and the more important it is to buy from reputable growers.
