You’re welcome! Isn’t this how knowledge is accumulated and passed on? One more arrow in your quiver!
I’ve had a clone from even Star infected.
As far as I understand, these larger operations sometimes need root stock material from wholesalers commonly not known to the public, and even places like UC Davis.
Extreme weather damage or worker mishaps, etc., cause shortages, and the managers have strict timelines, so they have to go and get root stock material somewhere other than their own fields just to make ends meet. Also, the source, even when they VID, make mistakes. I know of an example, but unsure if that would be considered corporate gossip so I’ll stop there. For the sake of argument, lets just say it can happen.
But I do agree that the farther away from the most known sources are more likely than well-known sellers to have some virus oopsies being sold.
It truly sucks, because $10 to 50 and 3 years down the road it suddenly appears and one thinks, “So that is why you had the vigor of a tic tac…”