Re: HYB: Inheritance of vigor

My apologies as well - sounds like I wasn't clear either.  I see the
same thing in all my crosses also.  Some do well, some die.

What has surprised me is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of
correlation between the parents that thrive <here> (or not) and the
abundance of thriving seedlings.  Some of the pairs of thriving parents
produced mostly poor seedlings and vice versa.

I really expected that crosses between two thriving parents (a somewhat
rare thing here) would produced mostly thriving offspring, and didn't
expect more than average health & growth from crosses involving one
marginal parent.

I didn't make any crosses between two poor growing parents - impossible
to set pods on a really sickly plant.  But I might get away with it on a
first year rhizome that still has energy from its place of origin (like
I did with ART DECO).

KK has encouraged me to really coddle some top of the line cultivars
that thrive elsewhere (but die here) so I can get some pollen.  Maybe I
should listen to him <g>

<No, sorry for not explaining myself clearly.  What I meant to say was
                   that it happened with the older crosses as well as
with the seedlings
                   from newer crosses.                   Chris>

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