Re: HYB: record keeping (was punnett squares)
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  • Subject: Re: HYB: record keeping (was punnett squares)
  • From: C* C* <i*@aim.com>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 07:27:08 -0500 (EST)
What I do with crosses I'm very interested in, is to take photos of every flower. This can include stalk as well. then I have a record without having to write things down. Can sort it all out later. One of benefits of digital cameras. I keep backup batteries for all cameras and carry them with me. They are needed. 

Chuck Chapman

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Mann <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: iris <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Sun, Feb 9, 2014 8:51 pm
Subject: [iris] HYB: record keeping (was punnett squares)

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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