HYB: record keeping (was punnett squares)
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  • Subject: HYB: record keeping (was punnett squares)
  • From: L* M* <l*@lock-net.com>
  • Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 13:36:55 -0500
Excellent suggestion, Betty. Most breeders have at least partial notes on outcomes from crosses. Might be nice if there were a central repository for data, so subsequent breeders could 'data mine'.
But it would require massive amounts of data entry - parents, number of seeds, survivors is the easy part, then all the info that could be collected on disease tolerance in any given climate, increase, height, branching bud count, color, pattern, rebloom traits, etc, plus photo. I don't have that many seedlings, relative to other breeders, but collecting all the information is well beyond what I can manage. I do manage to keep track of first year germination, just because I transplant during the time of year when there isn't a lot of other iris work to do.
All the rest has to be recorded while they are blooming, when all I have time & energy to do is rip out and fling the rejects, if that much, removing more each year, till all that are left are the re-selects, ready to dig and line out.
About all I seem to be doing to document my own work (re: Imm) is feeling guilty for not doing it. :-( 

On 2/9/2014 10:45 AM, Betty Wilkerson wrote:

I would like to make an appeal to those working with iris breeding, even the
ones that don't expect anyone will ever know!  I've kept pretty good records
in some directions;however, I've not kept a good record on the "bad
seedlings."  This means that in most cases, I can't tell you what all of the
siblings looked like.  Only a general memory.


So my appeal is for everyone to take those boring notes on the ones that
didn't matter.  See that someone that works with genetics, like Chuck, gets
the information.  Pictures help.


This will help everyone that works with iris.


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