Re: Re: Guest Iris

Sometimes hybridizers will request a guest iris back if they have lost a cultivar due to weather, pests or disease.
Mike Sutton

----- Original Message -----
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
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