Re: HYB: "strongest" 20%?

In a message dated 3/24/2006 6:10:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

If all  40 transplants in the window box planter survive that long, I
will probably  only line out the biggest 15 or so, but will hold the
others over to plant  later if there are high losses after lining out or
if the cross looks  promising when it blooms.



I recall reading--- indeed I recall taking notes on the subject but I can't  
stop to delve in my files now-- a comment by, I think, Christopher Lloyd,  on 
the subject of  potting on from a batch of mixed seed of one annual  or 
perennial or another.
 
The author cautioned that in selecting seedlings to move up to larger  pots 
for eventual incorporation into the garden, one should always be sure  to 
select some of the smaller seedlings as well as the more vigorous, since  among 
these were likely to be interesting and unexpected colors and forms. 
 
We want good growers, and that's a fact, but I wonder  whether significant 
hybridizing breaks, or advances, invariably announce  themselves with hearty 
neonatal growth. 
 
Cordially,
 
Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA

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