You did the right thing in trying to correct things but it does point to just how critical knowing without a shadow of a doubt that a variety is the variety we think it is. There was an old story about a mated pair of cats. the story went along the lines of: given full reproductive freedom to the mated pair and future offspring and excluding in breeding from consideration as a gating factor, how many cats can the initial mated pair produce in 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and so on. Apply the same logic to distributing a variety of figs by cuttings and air layers.... Give a single variety being distributed and redistributed in each subsequent fig generation bu aggressive growers, how many badly mislabeled instances of a fig variety can find its way into ownership and distribution after 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and so on. The numbers would be staggering! Take an aggressive grower like Evan Rosenthal whom has been discussed on the forum a few times and consider his BM seedlings.... According to the narrative, Evan fully disclosed to his buyers that the plants were seedlings of BM and thus not true to type in 99 41/100% of the cases. Given that at least some of his buyers simply did not read the fine print or did not care, how many false BM's will find their way into distribution through ebay sales, trades of cuttings, Air layers, etc. over the course of the next 1,2,3 or more years? I suspect that the odds of getting a real BM will decrease sharply for all but the most knowledgeable or careful buyers or those that do considerable due diligence and track the pedigree of a plant back genewrations and require proof of fruiting before buying.... Even then, mistakes, willful or otherwise, will happen and more fake BM's will be distributed...
It really is a large or should we say "growing" problem...