Re: Licensed Hybridizers
Christopher Hollinshead wrote:
>
> About there being so many/too many new TB intros each year. Here is an
> idea to kick around. AIS Licensed/Approved Hybridizers.
>
> 1. How about having the hybridizers having to go through a one
> time qualifying period in which their plants would be evaluated by an
> already qualified hybridizer, kind of an official AIS apprenticeship.(AIS
> judges already have this kind of system and they "only" judge the iris,
> not create them!) I think this would "up the quality" generally overall
> and also reduce the number of intros per year. (certainly weed out some of
> the "unworthys")
>
> Also there could be a new show category called apprentice
> hybridizer, where points could accumulate partially towards the
> qualification of being a licensed hybridizer. Garden assesment by their
> instructor(s) would
> importantly count for the remainder. So, there you have it, a LICENSE TO
> HYBRIDIZE. (really an AIS license to INTRODUCE)
> To initiate the new program, the AIS Board of Directors would initially
> have to recognize a selection of hybridizers as being of quality
> orientated and as teachers for the apprentices.
>
> There could even be levels/categories for the hybridizers just as there
> is for judges. To draw an analogy, kind of an ISO certification
> recognition. Hybridizers could state their AIS license level in their
> advertisements/catalogs giving the buying public a guideline
> as to their current level of quality recognition.
>
> 2. My second suggestion is to create limits on the actual number of
> new intros allowed per year per hybridizer. This perhaps could also be
> tied into the level of qualification/license category.
>
> Feel free to take this idea to the AIS.
> Or punch holes in it. ;>
>
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> Chris Hollinshead e-mail: bu336@torfree.net
> Mississauga, Ontario Canada
> Director, Canadian Iris Society
Chris,
I think you certainly have brought up some valid ideas...the only thing
I would ask though, how would this translate to a backyard or small
scale hybridizer(someone who might only introduce an iris every few
years if lucky)? I could see how your ideas could easily be applied to
a hybridizer who intros quite a few iris every year.Could you elaborate?
Julie Irwin
bajai@mtco.com
