Use of the word "Seedling"
J.E. Shields (Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:27:12 PDT)
This particular use of the term "seedling" is common practice among those
of us who have worked with vegetatively propagated named cultivars,
precisely as Dave and Dennis say. We hybridized daylilies here for about
30 years, and every plant grown from a seed was a "seedling" until someone
registered a cultivar name for it. We grew thousands of seedlings over the
years, and registered names for only about 40 of them. We discarded or
sold off all the rest as blooming "seedlings" in the process.
Jim Shields
in Westfield, Indiana
At 03:04 PM 4/14/2011 -0400, you wrote:
So we all look at it differently? :D To me, it denotes that it's not a
clone of another plant.
-Dave
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> wrote:
For me, my experience with "seedlings" comes from hybridizing irises.
Anything I've grown from seed, is a seedling... even if it is 15 years old
now and a massive clump of rhizomes in my garden. To other hybridizers (&
iris enthusiasts in general) the name "seedling" implies that I haven't
named, registered, or introduced this iris yet.
Dennis in Cincinnati
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