Re: CULT: ROT: trials out of region

I certainly don't want hybridizers in more favorable climates to start
trying to produce cultivars specifically adapted to my growing
conditions!  We'd lose way too much diversity <g>.

I hope that the idea of  'growers polls' like the one we did for Region
7 will catch on in other regions.  By pooling growing information within
regions, we can have the equivalent of regional trial gardens for award
winners that would give feedback to potential buyers and to hybridizers
which breeding lines are doing well outside their home regions.

I am assuming that certain breeding lines are 'weak' or weak in certain
climates based on what I read in catalogs or articles in the AIS
bulletin.  Drawing a blank on a specific example, but something like
'MAYTAG SCARLET (Donald not Eaves) is an improvement over its
weak-growing parent, MAYTAG RED.

Or Keith Keppel moving to a more difficult climate to improve his
ability to select less "biodegradeable" (his description) seedlings..

<I have suggested that hybridizers in the western states need to trial
their
> seedlings in our environment Glenn Grigg, Raleigh, NC Zone 7>

Well said, John <g>.  I especially appreciate your comment because I
can't grow Siberian or Japanese irises either!  Way too hot and dry in
my gravelly soil in the summer.  Except for Christy Hensler's much
debated cultivars and my one seed grown Japanese 'Higo' - whatever they
are, they like it here in my dry hot gravel.

<I encourage all hybridizers of siberian and japanese iris to send their
best seedlings to me for trial in an environment with very warm, dry,
sunny weather, no winter freezes most years), and salty alkaline adobe
clay soil John Reeds, in San Juan Capistrano 9b, CA>

--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
American Iris Society web site <http://www.irises.org>
iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
iris-photos/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>




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