RE: HYB: Marking 'keepers'

Linda Mann <lmann@volfirst.net> wrote:

>
>How do the rest of you mark keepers?
>

With color codes.  Every cross got a black label when it was lined out. [More than one label if there was more than one row of seedlings from the cross.] Each individual that went on my "watch list" got its own a red label.  Breeders got a blue label.  Those that survived the selection sequence got an additional silver marker to identify them as candidates for the "name game".  I kept a supply of paper tags in the garden secretary, so that visitors could suggest names.  If I used one of those suggestions, that person got a free rhizome when I introduced it.  Amazing how many paper tags some of my selections attracted.....

Sharon McAllister

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