I am just starting out. I wish to concentrate on my own stuff for a
while before working with others. Thanks for the kind invitation
though...
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:04
PM
Subject: [SpaceAgeRobin] A
suggestion
Dear SAGE team:
Bill Burleson has made a suggestion that caught
my imagination. I think it is a great idea--even though it is still a
while until this could be implemented.
Bill suggests that we select one of the SA
seedlings out of our first work, distribute it and all of us use it for
another step forward--along with the developing plan of crosses to sort
out the genetics.
Each of us that comes up with an SA that we would
like to share around with the other team members would post a photo--or a set
of photos--showing blossom with the SA trait(s) clearly visible, a full
bloomstalk, and a small but active clump. Hopefully this would display
the realities--both commendable and lamentable--of our baby being
offered.
Those that have already been making SA crosses
for some time could begin this process any time. Those of us just
starting may have a bit of delay getting a seedling up to where
there would be enough increase to share rhizomes
around.
Then, after we see some photos, we select by
e-mail our choice to one person designated to do the counts. The
counting person then would report the consensus choice back to the group, and
we could arrange shipping, distribution, and such.
Even those in Canada, Australia and
France could participate, as the phytosanitary certificate
required would only have to be paid once to import into the US, but
export from the US is a little more complex....we'll deal with that when and
if the time comes.
This is certainly one more way in which we
could get a single, in-common, cross with the same parents--by crossing this
seedling with something we all have...and I'm sure as we do trades around, or
weed through the massive number of things offered on the market and find some
that all of us think are superior for our purposes, that we *will* all have at
least one, and perhaps several, varieties in common.
An example--I doubt there is a single one of us
that does not already have and have growing YAQUINA BLUE. DEVONSHIRE
CREAM is another that thrives, and at least many of us seem already to have if
I'm not mistaken. There are undoubtedly others.
To summarize short and simple--we select one of
our seedlings for all of us to work with, and make the same cross or crosses
with it.
I think this sounds like fun! What d'yall
think of this idea?
Neil Mogensen for SAGE
