Re: CULT:HYB: labeling crosses

Holes punches work great on the mini blinds.  I 
get the cheapies at Walmart.

I somehow can't get myself to want to use a 
numbering system.  I know it takes longer to 
write out the cross on the tag, but I just 
don't do well trying to keeping a bunch of 
numbers in my head.  I'm always nosing around 
to see what's taking, and getting the book to 
look it up is more than I have the patience to 
do.  Then looking it up in the book to see what 
the seedlings are is way more than I could 
stand. I suppose I'll have to number the 
seedlings when I decide to keep them or cross 
with them.  I like Linda's numbering system 
which uses the cv's intials.

My biggest problem surprisingly is not keeping 
the notebook and keeping track of everything.  
Its that I can't seem to get out of that habit 
of writing the pollen parent first.  (book or 
tag)  Too many years of writing down horse 
pedigrees where the sire is first.  Having to 
convert everything in my head when I work out 
the complicated pedigrees makes it a real 
challenge.  At least when I find a tag on the 
pod parent with the parents turned around it 
gives me one more chance to catch the mistake.

<Any ideas how to get a cluster
<of crosses, say 'all the blue plicatas X all 
<the greenish whites' into a
<format that could actually be useful in the 
<garden

Christian, do you have Excel?  If I wanted to 
do that I would make as many columns as you 
wanted to sort for different characteristics.  
Of course, someone who really knew how to use 
Excel well would laugh at how I do things, but 
I get it figured out in that uniquely "Robin" 
way of doings things that I have. 

Robin Shadlow
Zone 5 NE

where we're getting a few more warm days, maybe 
those new stalks will make it after all!

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