Re: HYB: introducing seedlings (was OT:Iris-Photo seedling...)

Hi Doris - Several of us have been lurching along since almost the very
beginnings of this discussion group in 1996 trying to learn how to
hybridize and are just getting to the point of (maybe) having something
worth introducing.  I'm trying to figure all this out also, & from
suggestions/comments I've gotten offlist, as well as here, it sounds
like there are two considerations - getting wide distribution (fame) and
making some cash (fortune)..

I talked to one of our local club member/hybridizers and she had about a
dozen rhizomes the year they introduced it in their small catalog.  They
didn't sell many of them.  I don't think she had guested it around much,
but it is gradually showing up in catalogs.  Maybe part of the strategy
of guesting it several places is so folks will see it and anticipate its
availability?

And, of course, if it does well at a national or regional convention,
that whets appetites.

I've also been wondering who in the world has the cash to buy a bunch of
$30 to $50 rhizomes?  Are most buyers big commercial outfits or small
obsessive gardeners?  I know that some hybridizers trade their new
introductions with one another.

And finally, what is the usual financial arrangement with a commercial
grower who introduces a seedling for someone else?  Does the hybridizer
usually get all the cash from the year of introduction with the
commercial grower getting to keep any rhizomes that are leftover to do
with as they want in future years?  Or, does the hybridizer grow all the
rhizomes and the commercial introducer just promote it, with the
hybridizer shipping a batch of rhizomes on request to be redistributed?
Or do they both grow them?

Also, when sending rhizomes to be guested (other than convention
gardens, where they say what to send), how many are usually sent?

I feel like I'm part of a graduating class <g>

<If you, (as a grower)
                       hybridize and introduce an iris in your catalog
for $40, any and ALL
                       other growers can buy it from you, grow it out
and in two years
                       (approximately) sell rhizomes for, let's say,
$25. Is that correct? They
                       would have to buy a bunch at $40 to propagate
enough to have ready for
                       the market when they advertised at $25 I would
think. That means that the
                       hybridizer has about two years to make top dollar
on HIS creation before
                       other growers have the same rhizome for sale at a
lesser price. . .am I
                       getting this straight?   Doris Elevier>

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8



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