Re: AIS: Ideas for meetings

Our club seems to have a pretty insatiable appetite for looking at
pictures of TBs (along with eating and talking and giving rhizomes to
each other).  I would LOVE a series of slide shows by various
hybridizers, showing seedlings/introductions along the way towards
various hybridizing goals.

There are hints in catalogs sometimes - things like 'a step forward
towards a red-bearded black'.  'Improvement in this color class'.  But I
haven't a clue what the step was from, or what this one has that makes
it a step forward.  Maybe my personal taste would be for the step before
the improvement <g>.

I think I've heard that Mike and Anne Lowe do this for some of the
famous historic 'breaks' in new color patterns.

I would find it interesting/fun to see the choices that current
hybridizers make in moving towards a goal, as well as what that goal
is.  Even tho I'm sure AIS awards are a large part of motivation, surely
there are also elements of personal tastes of different hybridizers?
Plus the element of chance.  We've gotten to 'hear' some of these
choices and approaches by both new and established hybridizers on this
list (for instance, Patricia Brooks (did I get that right?)) and her
goal of non-tangerine bearded pinks, Walter Moores and the many doggie
seedlings that some crosses have produced for him along the way <g>).
We know which cultivars they like, which ones they are thinking of using
or have used and why, and which crosses were rejected and why.  A series
of slide shows of something like that, showing seedling/introduction
steps along the way would be really interesting.  Maybe too much trouble
for the hybridizers tho....

Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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