Re: Re: Guest Iris

Linda,
As a relative newbie to hybridizing,  your thoughts about why hybridizers 
send rhizomes to conventions are spot on.  Before I introduce something, I 
want verification that it grows well in other climates.  And there is the 
added bonus of getting exposure that may be the only exposure my cultivars 
get outside my local area.  I ask for seedlings back to count the increase 
and size of the rhizomes mainly, but also to increase my stock for 
introduction in some cases.  This is a legitimate motive, especially for a 
hybridizer with limited space.  I also send seedlings to the Median display 
gardens to get what has been good feedback on the performance of seedlings 
all over the states.
As the guest chair for our regional spring meeting last year, I was 
surprised that some of the well known hybridizers wanted most of the 
introduced stock back.  Others donated the increase to the club and region. 
I really don't know the reason for requesting the entire stock back, but it 
is the hybridizers prerogative.
Chuck Bunnell
Lafayette, IN
Region 6
Zone 5a-5b

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Mann" <lmann@lock-net.com>
To: "iris- talk" <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:39 AM
Subject: [iris] 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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| Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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