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Posted by Mrs_B SA Aust (My Page) on Wed, Oct 22, 03 at 19:44
I have a small rounded daisy bush, white with dark strawberry pincushion centre. One new shoot has grown with mottled pink flowers with the same centre as the parent. I'm hoping it will go on enough to strike a cutting from it. Question is if one wanted to sell it as a new variety how do you show it's breeding if it's been removed from the parent plant? and where or whom do you contact to patent or sell new plants? Are ther procedures that one must follow? I have three other plants that are also exhibiting different colours and growths to their parents.
thanks Mrs B |
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RE: new daisy questions
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You can sell it as a new flower, and give it a name if it IS a sport, and not just a virus infected section of plant (sorry to put a damper on it). You don't have to be able to prove parentage. There are plenty of registered plants from unknown parentage. I have no idea what society registers new daisy types.
Plant breeders patent is a completely different thing, and probably costs heaps in legal fees. You would also have to put a heap of money into marketing - or go round all the bunnings stores and K-marts and beg them to sell your stock. Which means you would have to have heaps of stock, all growing in nice dinky little pots, with a pretty plastic label showing the flowers. You would most certainly have to put far more money into the venture than would be justified by the income it would generate. (Glossy magazine ads, plant expos, etc)
There is absolutely NOTHING to stop you from reproducing a sport and selling it at fetes, or for the MAW foundation, and I am sure the rewards would be far greater.
Cheers, Jan |
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- Posted by Mrs_B SA Aust (My Page) on
Thu, Oct 23, 03 at 20:23
Hey! Jan now that I'm shattered. (I had plans to retire on this) :o) Thanks for your words of wisdom. My daisy is ok-ish, but you should see the one I have from a friend. She sells it at her open gardens but it really should be available to more. It's in the most marvelous rainbow of colours, from lemon through to the pinks and sunsets in between. Lovely clear colouring and I really don't describe it with justice. I think I might ask the local nursery how she could capatalise on it as it really does deserve a place in everyone's garden. I have never ever seen a daisy as attractive as this, so you can imagine my enthusiasm. My faded, possible virus ridden one, will have to be consigned to the wishful thinking section I think.
cheers Teresa |
RE: new daisy questions
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| You could send me a few cuttings and I will 'assess' it for her, and trial it in a number of different microclimates :-) |
RE: new daisy questions
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| You know - like trialing it to see how it performs in different areas! ;) |
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- Posted by Mrs_B SA Aust (My Page) on
Fri, Oct 31, 03 at 1:16
| hmmmmm!! I guess some people in Vic & Queensland are droppin' hints. Well if I get some cuttings to strike, I shall sell them to you at a hugely inflated price - so that I can retire in the style that I think I could become accustomed to. |
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| *laughs* Mrs B, you missed your calling as a stand up comedienne. Quick repartee extraordinaire. You put a smile on my face! |
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| :o) Hi Desi gotta! smile everyday, it's the only way to keep wrinkles away. cheers Teresa |
RE: new daisy questions
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| Looking through old posts for something and found this - two years old mind you. Mrs B - I am curious to know what colour your cuttings of the daisies turned out to be when they bloomed the next couple of seasons. Was it a sport or just a sick plant? Cathy |
RE: new daisy questions
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- Posted by Mrs_B SA Aust (My Page) on
Thu, Nov 3, 05 at 17:23
Hi Cathy
this was so long ago I had to come look see what I had even posted :o)
Very sad news the rotter died including the main plant so that put paid to my hopes of wealth. I have found a lot of the so called 'new' plants drop dead for no apparent reason. My old cuttings pinched from family and friends are flourishing 20 years later. The gorgeous rainbow one that I spoke about died this year, I'm hoping the cuttings will take but not hopeful. It was never a strong plant in the first place. I'm afraid time and all that stuff has curtailed my activity on the web of late - to busy attacking weeds as well. We have been having rain every week along with the warmth, so it looks something like a tropical jungle down here in cool SA. My roses look super though, with the Lorrainne Lee rose fence looking particularly wonderful. Of course I kept putting off taking photo's so now it's not as spectacular as before. DL's starting to bloom and all is good. cheers Tersa |
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