Roy, I did not provide any financial calculations. I know the monetary and labor cost of replacing labels is not inconsequential. What I said is that this cost is minimal when compared with all the other costs associated with maintaining a healthy orchid collection.
As for your comment on "All because a few people with nothing better to do decided to stuff up a system that has been working well for the last 100+ years", I find it demeaning. These "people with nothing better to do" are also describing new species and carrying out research on the ecology and conservation of orchids in the wild. Granted, there are disagreements between taxonomists and sometimes there are competing classifications floating around, which can be confusing. This is all part of a process that works mostly by consensus. In any case, new classifications will still come in the future, no matter how inconvenient these are for the growers. What the horticultural community needs to do is find a practical way to deal with these changes. And as someone said earlier in this forum, keeping your name tags with the latest name changes will not make you a better grower. ROY LEE wrote: > Mario, to put in my 2 cents worth. I think your financial calculations are > wrong. Just ask all the Commercial growers ( & exporters ) of the > Sophronitis, Cattleya etc family. Tens of thousands ( millions )of these > plants are grown and sold around the world each year. To be correct under the > new clasifications now operating and those proposed, each plant will have to > be RE-named with the correct Grex and abbreviations. This will involve the > searching for the new grex name through the RHS registry for every crossing > in stock. This will also be required for re labelling of all the species > involved, this also for all the other genera re-clasified. If this is not > done then in some countries, authorities will not allow the plants to be > exported, period. Of course, there is the time and man power required to do > this research, organising the labels and then placing the labels in the pots. > Then the minor, hahaha, task of updating stock systems, files, websites, > catalogs etc, etc, etc to reflect these changes. Then its all out work to > explain to their clients what the new names mean and that nothing has changed > as far as the plants go, just the names. All because a few people with > nothing better to do decided to stuff up a system that has been working well > for the last 100+ years. > > > > _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
