Re: CULT: Cyber trial gardens.

Frequency of death should give you that info, assuming cultivars don't
suddenly jump from living 100% to dropping dead 100% of the time when
you cross the Rockies or the Mississippi, heading west to east, or from
one side of some line from north to south.

Well, maybe the coast "line" would cause such a jump in death rate <g>

My prediction is that, for example, XYZ, selected as a seedling in
California zone 9 from parents that have died in less than one year
(good point, Char, about when it dies) for everybody I know in Region 7,
would maybe go from >90% lived in zone 9 California to ever lower
percentages as the climate becomes either a lot colder or a lot wetter,
reaching 100% death rate in some climates.  Or at least close to that
without protection that most growers would view as disqualifying it as
an 'easy garden perennial'.

<you need measures that could reflect changes in   performance along a
cline. >

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