Re: Electors
SCHAFFCM@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU wrote:
>
> Clarence -- I hope you don't stop talking about your offspring, your children,
> your siblings, and etc. It's a very curious thing to learn how the mind
> of a hybridizer thinks -- just why one sibling is chosen over another --
> because it has to be a very subjetive decision. It is YOUR decision that
> determines whether or not we growers will get to evaluate it, but our
> experience is vastly differnt from the hybridizer's!! For some, it's a
> "I'll know it when I see it" reaction, and there are others like yourself
> who have definite criteria which force the decision and then, it seems, you
> are very confident of that decision. I keep waiting for hybridizers to
> put words to the experience of choosing -- maybe listening to hybridizers
> would help train the eye/mind to see what's truely good! On the one hand,
> good is one that grows well, on the other, it's pattern on the bloom.
>
> I'm listening very closely to your nuggets, Clarence... hope you don't pull
> back --
> Carolyn Schaffner
AMEN!!! ;-)
Julie Irwin <bajai@mtco.com>
USDA zone 5 Illinois
