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Hello David,
I believe the numbers beside each cultivar were the
ones in which the participants grew and voted for to use in the program.
As you know, there was 3 or 4 different sections involving many cultivars which
may be too overwhelming for the average hobby gardener to take on.
This is why I suggested reducing the scope to possibly encourage more
participation. As of right now, interest in the project seems to be
dangerously low and I'm not too sure many people made any crosses in the SAGE
directing this year using the suggested breeders. Of course, as we all
know, planning crosses and actually getting the plants bloom
and pollinated is a completely different story. My SAGE crosses
from last year involved MESMERIZER, which I believe is one of the backup
breeders. I'll have to concult the document to be sure since my mind is
like a seive ;-)
The scope reduction is just a suggestion of mine,
I'll wait for others to chime after they have a chance to read the post.
Many of the members are in no mail option.
Where do you live David ? We've had a lot of
snow North of Montreal but is continues to heat up and rain and then freeze
again. My Irirses are sitting under about 2 feet of solid ice at the
moment. I also had a huge Birch tree blow over on to the main seedling bed
so there's a lot of cleaning up to do but not until April when some of the snow
melts. A move to California sounds fantastic, count me in as
well. One thing is for sure, I will NOT spend the rest of my like in the
Arctic like winter climate. Whether I can afford to move to California is
a completely different matter ;-)
Regards
Chris
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:29
PM
Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin] Re: SA
Seedling + SAGE
Hi,
I agree with Francelle. I like all of them, or at
least almost, but don't have
nearly enough room. Seeing Mike's
pictures is very nice. It makes a person
want to try it himself just
to see what would happen. Chris's goal of just trying
get a seedling
with a SA appendage sounds about right. But then, where would
the
seedlings grow? Oh, the woes of having fun. :)
Chris-Yes, it does
seem that it's been quiet for a long time. Could you explain
what
you are thinking about SAGE by reducing the number of breeders to one
or
two? Are there very many people participating now? Would everyone
just
use those one or two in an effort to generate larger quantities of
seedlings in
order to compare results more quickly?
In going through
some of the old messages over the winter, I read an article by
Neil
Mogensen called the SAGE Review. It was very interesting. Is that
the
current SAGE plan? What does it mean when it says the "list of
"1"s returned to
Bill Burleson"? I understood the list to mean to try
those highest on the list,
like Thornbird, first, but they also have
numbers after them like 12 for Thornbird, and 11 for Mesmerizer. What do
these numbers mean?
It's good to see people writing a little
again. Only wish spring were closer.
Although, it's not too
far. The medians under my south facing window are
starting to send up
new growth. :) Maybe I should move to California, so I
could
get reblooms all winter long like
Mike?
David
Christopher Darlington
<chrisdarlington@ca> wrote:
Francelle,
My
only goal from the begining was a very modest desire to breed any
old
seedling that had an SA appendage and I acheived that with flying
colors
last year due to a very early melt. The fact that many of them
were dogs
didn't bother me at all ;-) It just gave me hope.
Ironically, I
did find a IB sized (don't like the little ones much)
non Space Age
seedling which I believe could be from Doctor No x Gnus
Flash that I've
fallen in love with. I dug it up and separated it
with hopes that
I can work furthur with it and possibly use it for SA
breeding.
Somebody suggested crossing it back to Doctor No, but I
love it the way
it is now.
For my crosses this year, I have a very strange variety of
unusual
historics, Arilbreds and modern Space Agers that I got from
Superstition that I hope to cross together. No I'm not necessarly
after modern form, I still interested in anything "different".
Yeah,
that grumpy guy (forget his name now) on Iris Photos might declare
in
ugly but that's ok, I find him funny.
As for SAGE, it's
been very quiet on the topic for a very long time.
My first
thoughts would be to dramatically reduce the scope of the
experiment to
just a few crosses with only one or two breeders to
allow more people to
participate to start with. Anybody have any
thoughts about this
?
Chris
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