Most breeders dont care if you outcross using thier gear but some get upset when people f2 the line and sell it or try to use the genetics that they worked so hard trying to stabilize just to hit a room full of clones and put a for sale sign on it.
I could understand that.. totally. Especially when you use the breeders name/brand to sell those seeds..
Selfing a single plant and selling those seeds or making F2's (essentially the same thing as selfing) is pretty lame.
Seeing as we don't have the luxury of plant patents in this trade, it is just sort of a dishonorable thing to do.
I don't know, would you say that taking it to F3 is "just enough".. Take it to F4 and that work is basically yours?..
Of course we are using the F1, F2, F3 thing kinda loosely.. not what they REALLY are.. F1 being the cross of 2 pure lines... F2 a cross of two F1's progeny, and so on... or so I thought.
I would think more so it is less about what F you are on and more so about your intentions..
For example.. how about Hazeman making the Mikado seeds? Isn't that just some F2's that he put up for sale? Yet his intentions were to conserve some great genetics.. not to rip someone off of their hard work..
I just hit Bodhi's Silver Mountain to a green crack cut because I hear the appalachia is going out of use.. so if I give them away I am ok? If I sell them I am not?
..tricky biz.. for the record though, I have no interest in selling these beans.. I have my own set of standards on this matte, for myself, and I wouldn't feel right about selling those.. not really because I would be doing Bodhi some kind of wrong,, just because that would be lame to try an pass it off as my own work. Especially if I was to lie about the lineage..
