Re: SDB spot pattern

From: "Walter A. Moores" <wam2@Ra.MsState.Edu>



On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Glenn Simmons wrote:

> From: Glenn Simmons <glsimmon@swbell.net>
> 
> 
> I am new in this area of irises (hybridizing) and I know I am ignorant of many
> factors involved here but I keep running across what Walter has mentioned above.
> Y 163B???    This using seedling numbers instead of a named plant baffles me.
> This kind of practice would never be allowed in breeding animals!  Is it that the
> plant (seedling #) isn't good enough to register?  If this is the case then is the
> plant really worth using as breeding stock?  Or is something else involved here
> that I am not seeing?  Using seedling #'s can make it very difficult to trace
> lines.  Is this the object of this practice?
> 
> Glenn
> 
> --
	Glenn, I wish I knew why just numbers are used by some hybridizers
in writing their parentages.  Many will use numbers and then in
parentheses give the parents of the numbered seedlings.  I know it is
frustrating and is a dead end when just numbers appear. The Jim Gibson
plicatas were loaded with numbers with no further identification.  Maybe,
the hybridizer didn't know the parentages of those numbered.  If that is
the case, I think 'unknown yellow self' or 'unknown pink ground plic'
should be used or if the seed spilled or got mixed then a 'probably'
might help a little.

	Keith Keppel could answer this question.

	I also find it distressing not to be able to examine the parentage
of a $45 introduction because some hybridizers wait until the year of
introduction to register.  Now, we all know that they know the parentage
years before they introduce a new iris.  Why is the parentage a secret
until the year of introduction?


	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS 7/8


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