ok people please oh please!!!!!!I am going to try again and if no luck then i will wait until fall to ask again.does anybody have one rooted snowbanks to trade or sase? plmk what you would like for trade if you would like too thanks moretz
brugmansia "snowbanks"
Moretz, Snowbank is so new that most of us have not even seen it bloom yet. I have one, but I can guarantee you that I won't be taking cuttings from it this year. It will be kept complete for next year's blooms to be heavier.
we can't propagate it anyway, right? or am I misunderstanding the patent?
I think it's the sellers that can't propagate it.
copied from the patent law, amended 1994:
a plant patent owner has the right to exclude others from asexually reproducing the patented plant, from using, offering for sale, or selling the asexually reproduced plant, or any of its parts, throughout the United States, and the patentee can exclude others from importing into the United States the asexually reproduced plant or any of its parts.
"any of it's parts" includes pollen and seeds. Of course they aren't going to send the brug police out to watch you and be sure you don't take a cutting and root it, but it is not legal to root a cutting of a patented plant to give to someone else.
thanks Cala
That's good information, I stand corrected. Thanks Cala.
This is good to know. Thanks Susie!!
Glory
May 22, 2003
Susie,
Thanks.
Here In the Ireland & the UK, we can propagate and distribute patented plants once it's not for profit!
Trust me LOL but I'm still not clear if US patented plants can't be used in sexual reproduction!
I'm not trying to contradict anyone just trying to clarify it for myself, but look at this. I haven't changed any of the facts...just tried to make it more understandable.
US Patent law, amended 1994:
REPRODUCTION
A plant patent owner has the right to exclude others from asexually reproducing the patented plant.
SELLING
A plant patent owner has the right to exclude others from using, offering for sale or selling the asexually reproduced plant or any of its parts.
("Useing" could refer to useing for sale, which would explain the second use of the word "from" in the patent law)
IMPORTING
The patentee can exclude others from importing into the United States the asexually reproduced plant or any of its parts.
See what I mean? Ok maybe i'm grabbing at straws LOL