Re: HYB: Barry Blyth's seedlings
- Subject: Re: HYB: Barry Blyth's seedlings
- From: i*
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 11:59:31 -0000
> <janclarx@h...> writes:
> > Pat Brooks wrote, quoting Barry Blyth:
> possibly 50% of them were better than most named
> >varieties on the market today.
>
> Jan,
> This sounds like a true statement to me, I know I say it or think it
all the time about my seedlings. If you compare them with what's out
there including all the older varieties, you realize that they are
better than half the stuff on the market, and I bet your new hybrids
are way better than most the things that people grow, you wait and
see, your very own babies will look better than most things from the
60's, 70's, 80's and 90's.
----------When Barry or anyone else with an extensive breeding program
is making crosses the parents are usually the plants that will be
intoduced in about 5 years time. Thus the parents are already about 5
years ahead of what is currently the newest plants on the market. Thus
it's not surprizing that there are so many good plants. The problem
is to anticipate what plants will still be "State of the art" when it
comes time to introduce them, about 7 years down the road. By that
time there will have been about 6-7000 new iris introduced, probably
more then half TBs.
Chuck Chapman
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