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Montana

Does anyone barter seeds for such things as growing supplies? Say you have a excellent seed that's been auctioning for around $200...and you are willing to give it up for trade of growing supplies to help with the costs of growing giants. Do/can grower do this?

12/25/2009 10:28:04 PM

Nebraska

Isn't that the same as selling. What is the difference between bartering for $200 worth of supplies or selling it for $200 and then buying the supplies.

12/26/2009 12:01:31 AM

Ohio

James, I have done that, I dont see a problem at all with it if you have bought a seed at auction. Its your seed that you payed good money for, so why not?

But as far as a seed that has been given to me by a grower himself grew, that is something that I would never do, it just dont seem right in my book.

12/26/2009 4:56:51 AM

Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia

Assuming the seeds are yours to do what you want, there is nothing wrong with bartering at all. In 2008, some very nice seeds were traded for fishing lures, pretty creative.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=1&p=239779

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=1&p=239072

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/MsgBoard/ViewThread.asp?b=1&p=238843

12/26/2009 9:16:25 AM

canal winchester ohio

I guess it would depend on how it was obtained, if you paid top dollar at a auction then have at it.
If you got it from a grower directly it would depend on how that went down ( did he/she say do with it as you wish or express that if you don't plant it give it to someone who will).
If I give seeds to someone I always tell them to do as they wish with them, but then again I'm just a pee-on in this hobby & my seeds don't bring squat...LOL!!

12/26/2009 11:43:59 AM

Montana

Thanks for your replies. I won the seed in a raffle last year and think it deserves to be grown by a more experienced grower in a better climate. I will post it on the seed exchange sometime after the new year.

12/26/2009 8:33:39 PM

Montana

Thanks for your replies. I won the seed in a raffle last year and think it deserves to be grown by a more experienced grower in a better climate. I will post it on the seed exchange sometime after the new year.

12/26/2009 8:33:44 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Bach when Howard Dill's PVP patent was still active seeds for cash was taboo. Even the early club benefit auctions sought the "Dill Approved" status often kicking cash the Dill's way.

Even then seeds for supplies was considered cool since no cash exchanged hands.

Trading etiquette is another thing all together. Asking a grower for seeds that you said were to be grown should never be traded. That would be more than just tasteless.

That aside, there were always those "other unmentioned deals" that used to be the norm. Sticking a $20 bill inside bubbles used to be routine. Free seeds were never really FREE.

Heck, for years certain growers sold other merchandise packaged with seeds and the Dill's were never compensated at all.

Seeds for cash is still largely taboo but there is no longer a legal reason so long as the Dill name isn't used in the marketing. The name "Dill's Atlantic Giant" is still legally off limits to anyone other than the Dill company.

Seeds of any kind that are packaged for retail sale have always been subject to state, provincial, local, other trade, etc laws too.

Bartering seeds for supplies is cool if both parties & the original grower are OK with it.

Authenticity challenges are as old as the hills and will never go away. Auction values just serve to make values more easy to establish and track. Suffice to say, mean and dishonest suck.

12/27/2009 2:21:35 AM