HYB: Barry Blyth's advice
- Subject: HYB: Barry Blyth's advice
- From: p*
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:02:44 -0000
Hi, gang,
I'm trusting no one else has put this out since I've been absent from
the list for a few days -- before Yahoo revamped, causing it to move
at a snail's pace. I have to get out to plant my companion plants
while there's a break in our late winter. I'll catch up later.
For those who aren't members of the Tall Bearded Iris Society and so
don't get their Tall Talk twice a year, I was delighted to see a
profile of Barry Blyth, along with Keppel and Gatty and others. He
included in his interview his advice for novice hybridizers like
myself. It went as follows:
* choose areas in which little work is being done;
* grow as many new introductions as you can to keep current with what
others are doing;
* make as many crosses and raise as many seelings from each cross as
you can in the area of your endeavor;
* whenever possible make the reciprocal cross; the results may be
unexpected and remarkable;
* carry on with linebreedling from the seedling rather than repeating
the same cross of a good seedling;
* be patient and accept the lovely things that turn up on the way to
your goal;
* go all ways in crossing your own material and bring in outside lines
if needed;
* be bold with wide way-out crosses; (I love that one! Look out!)
* if a line has some severe trait that is not wanted, discard it;
* be gracious in sharing pollen or discarded seedlings with others
who want it and encourage their efforts. (Interesting in light of
our discussion of this issue some time back. I continue to see
others' numbered seedlings in the named parentage of introductions.)
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