Re: 'Delta Dawn-streaked' or Delta Force

I'm not even sure I agree with myself.  I agree that everything (probably) needs a name, but when you name a streaked form of a plant, I'm not sure what you are naming.  How do you define a plant that changes constantly? Presumably, the streaked plant should be highly streaked.  If it's Delta Force when you get it, is it still Delta Force when it looses half it's variegation? When it's almost but not quite stabilized? Or only when it looks like it did when it was named?  I don't know.

Sometimes I sits and I ponders, sometimes I just sits.

I've got about 300 streaked breeders here that I have to think of names for.

Chick
 
 

timsaville wrote:

Hi ChickWhilst I see and accept the "chicken & egg" dilemma you are pondering upon I do disagree with you about the naming of "sported" streakies. I do however feel that great restraint is required as far as seedlings go.I just can't see what the actual disadvantage there is in straight forwardly naming/registering a streaked version of an already registered hosta compared to leaving it to be labelled a rather clumsy "streaked version of ......" or ".H  A B C..Supreme)Perhaps when a stable version of a (new) hosta is registered the introducer should also register the (new) streaked plant, assuming it is still around and didnt totally morph in to the stable plant.  Some recent registrations from the same originator seem to follow that avenue.Incidentally I seem to remember Preston Littleton pointing out to me that it is prefectly possible to have two streaked versions of the same (stable) hosta registered/named. I forget the example quoted to me, but for example I have a streaked Summer Fragrance which does seem different from Edwin Bibby (more green/yellow that white/green). Both came from the same nursery however so I hesitate (as many others do when finding very similar stable sports already found elsewhere from the same hosta) to name it. Please let us know where your musings take you. I do feel this is a subject that won't go away. Tim over the pond
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