Re: Guest Iris

Could some of you comment on the purpose of sending rhizomes out as guests?

I naively thought that rhizomes were sent <mostly> so hybridizers could learn how their cultivars perform in various climates and to make it possible for judges and other AIS members to see what new cultivars look like "live" and in comparison to one another all in one location. [On another topic, conventions keep track of performance of all cultivars that are grown, report back to the hybridizer on that performance, but don't share that information with the rest of the iris community. I would <love> to be able to beg/borrow/see a spreadsheet of those data! Both from regional conventions and nationals]

I also naively thought that the <main> reason rhizomes were returned was to make sure they weren't being distributed without permission, thus "cheating" the hybridizer out of possible income, intellectual property.

The comments make it sound like hybridizers also expect to have their new introductions propagated for free and then sent back for free.
??

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