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

Hi Linda:
        Sounds as though you and me are echoing each other! Your thoughts
and questions certain parallel mine. I don't have any seedlings; I was
just curious and wondering how all this happens. I suspect and hope we
will get more answers from perhaps, GROWERS, like Suttons, etc. Mike, if
you're reading this, can you shed some light on all these queries? I feel
reasonably sure there are others out there who have wondered about this.
(Mike is probably as busy as that proverbial three-legged cat in a 40 mph
wind!!)

Doris Elevier
USDA 7b, Sunset 11
El Paso, TX


On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:31:03 -0400 Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net>
writes:
> 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>
> 
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8

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