Re: Re: HYB: seedling codes
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Re: HYB: seedling codes
- From: w*@watervalley.net
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 15:56:33 -0500
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>
> Other hybridizers were usually consistent from year to year . . .
>
> Soo, future hybridizers, pick a system, make it simple, & stick to it
> if you want to minimize errors in transcription in future electronic
> databases <g>
>
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
I don't know if Hooker still does this, and I never understood
why, but he doesn't number his seedlings until they give maiden
bloom! So, if you see 98101A (usually his code has no dashes),
that would mean 98 was not the year the cross was made but the
year this seedling first bloomed. Your guess is as good as mine
as to what 101 means or is that ten and one?? What if not all of
the cross bloomed in 98? This could get confusing and
complicated. But, it obviously works for him.
Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS 7/8 USA
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