Re: Re: HYB: seedling codes

In a message dated 6/10/00 4:53:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wmoores@watervalley.net writes:

<< 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.  >>

Hi,

We do the same thing.  No seedling gets a number until it blooms.  A few 
years ago we started putting a "W" in front of the number to avoid confusion 
when sending seedlings out as guests.  We have been using the year of maiden 
bloom, such as 97, 99, but this year used "2K."  Then a dash and the number 
in sequence of bloom.  Any seedlings that bloom and we don't want to keep are 
discarded without being numbered.  We don't keep track of how many seeds 
germinated unless it is a very special cross.  We always have more seedlings 
than we can accommodate as it is.  This year we numbered 238 seedlings.  It 
can be confusing when seedlings from a cross bloom at different times or even 
different years, but we try to line out all the ones from a cross together so 
we can compare them.  Some crosses produce a lot of similar offspring and it 
is difficult to decide which has the most good qualities.  Of course, this 
especially applies to our specialty of Standard Dwarf Bearded irises.

Tony and Dorothy Willott

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