Re: HYB: reliability vs health

Linda,
   
  I was thinking about your troubles in the vale earlier today and I decided I need you to clarify your standards on health further... which you did a bit in this post.
   
  It occured to me that it is theoretically possible for a cultivar to survive, even bloom and increase while being completely covered with leaf spot.  I have seen a few such in my neighbors yard.  But that may be a completely different bird from a cv that can grow in the same infected bed and not show any (or maybe hardly any) leaf spot at all.  And depending on exactly which you were aiming for it would be a different reselect category.
   
  fwiw
  Christian
  ky

Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net> wrote:
  After thinking about it and looking back over the list of crosses that
have produced survivors, it's clear that the and
are not necessarily the same thing. At least not here.
Most reliable are among the most resistant to soft rot, but not
necessarily resistant to foliar diseases.

And that shows up in the crosses - healthy x healthy produces higher
percentage of survivors than healthy x either disease prone foliage or
not a steady increaser/bloomer.

By steady increaser/bloomer, I mean both those that steadily increase
and continue to make more and more stalks (nice clumpers) and those that
steadily increase but make fewer stalks per rhizome in the clump. Like
FEED BACK does here.

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