I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. bodhi has been crystal clear in his support of people using his work. On BreedBay, in hundreds of posts over the last decade+, he has time and time again openly supported everyone making F2 with his work, and then doing whatever they wanted with them. The only restriction he places on breeding with his work is that he asks that you don't breed with testers before they're released, as noted in the tester email, to make sure unstable or undesirable genes don't get propagated.
Although he doesn't consider himself a breeder, the level of testing he does on each cross is one of the reasons he's considered a breeder's breeder - he's using extremely confirmed and vetted clones of rare and elite strains, along with his personally-sourced, tested and selected, often line-worked males, to get unique and elite genetics to the public. This is part of why he's universally respected, and why so many breeders have made their fortunes by using genetics he birthed.
He mentions his open use philosophy many times throughout his
Pot Cast interviews. Below, I've listed a few excerpts, provided with the context from those interviews, for your review. I hope that his words may inform your own re-evaluation:
Here's where bodhi says there's
no restrictions on his seeds and that he ENCOURAGES people to make more and spread them around, especially old discontinued lines:
Here's where bodhi talks at length about breeder respect and intentions and communication about working other people's strains (as well as the bad energy attached to some beans):
Here's where bodhi again talks about how he loves people F2'ing discontinued lines:
Here's where bodhi talks about people hoarding (apologies to resident hoarders lol!!), and about sharing specifically. Listen for a couple minutes:
bodhi talks about giving seed packs (in the context of Matt Riot) and not caring what people do with them after that:
bodhi talks about open pollination to preserve old/discontinued strains:
bodhi's discussion about how seeing cash as king hurts the industry, and how instead we should be making a compassionate project:
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