Re: CULT:HYB: labeling crosses

well, Robin,

I can certainly understand about wanting to have the parents right there on
the tag.  The problem I had was that after a few weeks I couldn't read the
writing on the tag any longer.  Then there was trying to squeeze a name onto
a tag around the hole and still be able to read it when I got done.   After
the ink on the tag faded I gave up, put a number directly on the pod with a
regular ball point pen (that makes a little bit of a 'scar' on the surface
of the pod that doesn't fade away), and had a list; pod #11 AFTER THE DAWN X
GREEN PROPHECY, and so on.  It worked well enough for me, by the third or
fourth check of the list I had the cross memorised by it's number.

I can sympathise with the backward pedigrees Linda.  Who do these silly iris
people think they are changing everything?

When I write out a pedigree I write it out exactly as I read it.  I let the
pod parents fall on the top and the pollen parents fall on the bottom.  It
was easier for me to look at a completed pedigree tree and THEN remind
myself that the tops are really the bottoms than to try to keep each gender
sorted correctly for the whole pedigree, Especially when some of these
pedigrees use two and three repeats back and forth of the same parents.....

In the end who provided which in plants isn't really all that signifigant is
it?  I know there are some plants who are sterile one way or another, and
some have suggested that certain traits are derived from a particular parent
(is it varigated leaves I'm thinking of?.) but it isn't as if the pieces and
parts are all different and stuff....   (I seem to have lost my train of
thought....


Christian
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