Re: Digest Number 1379

In a message dated 01/20/2001 1:00:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
iris-talk@egroups.com writes:


> 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
> 

I'm not sure just how much the AIS awards motivate hybridizers. In the group 
of hybridizers who do hybridizing for a living, the motivation is commercial. 
Will it sell? Will it grow? I think most hybridizers do what they do because 
hybridizing is their passion. If the awards come, so much the better. If they 
don't, that's not a problem.
This is my favorite quote about the motivation to hybridize:

"There is nothing that can bring so much excitement to living as the creative 
drive. The urge to manipulate some element or group of elements into new and 
possibly more satisfactory form can be the occupation of a lifetime. It can 
be an obsession. Such an obsession has been in charge of my life for the past 
40 years..."
                                                                              
               Ben Hager 1990

Fred Kerr
Rainbow Acres


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