Hi Jean-Pierre,
If the original owner then contacts you and asks you to apply a different clonal name, it's up to you. If someone other than the original owner demands this be done, especially someone with a hidden agenda, then you have to use your best judgment.
Best Regards,
Not sure where you're going with this Mr. Kalina. The dictionary defines fraud, in part, as a breach of confidence for personal gain. The original clonal name always takes precedence, you conceded as much publically and indicated that you would change the clonal name back to "Pepe". In this matter, you did in fact confirm for yourself that the longifolium album was already used in breeding and the original owner did in fact tell you the clonal name was "Pepe" and wanted it changed back. You can dance around the subject all you want talking in circles about hidden agendas and rules that you make up as you go along, changing them to suit your own agenda. When you breach someone's confidence for your profit or gain, you are committing fraud. One can only assume that is where the moniker "Fraud Valley Orchids" comes from.
For those of you on the forum not familiar with that moniker there was a series of postings to the Orchid List Digest some years ago detailing a long line of such activities by Mr. Kalina and the author coined the term "Fraud Valley Orchids" to describe his dealings with Mr. Kalina.
Not only that, but it would appear Mr. Kalina both "loves it" when threads get hijacked and flips over to an apologist when the thread concerns his activities. There is a quote from Mr. Kalina as such on this forum not long ago...
The only agenda here is to protect the interests and reputation of a man and his business, a man who was kind enough to sell you a division of his plant only to have you replace his clonal name, and put the name of your business on his plant. When you sent the picture of the P. longifolium v. album to the Orchid Digest for publication, did the description include a note that the same was a division of Ecuagenera's plant? No, that piece of relevant information conveniently disappeared like Pepe's clonal name...
Hopefully now we can stop talking in circles and simply do the right thing.
For the forums reference here is Mr. Kalina's original posting on the subject. Judge for yourself:
December 21st, 2006, 03:00 PM #18
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I've been in contact with the original owner of our Phrag. longifolium var album, Jose Portilla, and he informs me that he did breed the original plant under a different clonal name before we purchased a piece of it. Because of his prior use of this plant for breeding purposes. We will change our clonal name of `Fox Valley Mint' to `Pepe' to comply with current practices. The original owner also assured me that Fox Valley Orchids has the only division of this particular clone so I must assume yours has a different clonal name ? It would be great if there was more than one clone.......
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