Re: HYB: CULT: reselect seedlings & trash

--- In iris-talk@y..., "Colleen Modra" <irises@s...> wrote:
" I hope you will use it for breeding to improve a lot of other poor
performers, any chance of a bit for my breeding programme"? 
--Colleen Modra

This highlights one aspect of this thread few of us have touched on.  
I think it is of great benefit to all of us if reselect seedlings of 
considerable merit, but not quite intro quality, occasionally get 
passed around, carefully, for breeding.  Many commercial hybridizers 
are VERY reluctant to let something out of the breeding patch, for 
good reason.  They end up passed on and on.....might as well have 
been named and introduced.

But, there are those that are benchmark breeders.  Some new 
characteristic, some special combination of factors can make a 
breeder seedling more than just a little worth while.  It may be the 
five-foot two-inch-based seedling is one such.  It also may be that 
it is not.  One must trust the breeder's judgment.

Neil Mogensen  zone 7a near Asheville, NC


 

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