That would be so much fun to go there during bloom season and get to pick a seedling to buy. It's interesting that he still has so many left over to compost.

Dot

I have been given seedlings from several hybridizers, all with the understanding that I won't share pollen or fans with anyone, and when I don't want the seedling anymore, it goes back to them, or compost (their decision). I had one from John Rice that I loved - but he decided not to intro it and told me to compost it. I dug it up, tossed it on the compost pile. It bloomed for 3 years sitting on top of the compost pile! LOL

I've had several seedlings from Curt Hanson that he later introduced. I kept a fan and returned the clumps to him so he had more fans to sell.

If a hybridizer knows your working with a certain form, sometimes they will share a seeding with you for you to use.

Dot all hybridizers compost a lot more seedlings than they can give away, sell, or register. I would guess most compost 95% or more each year. If you plant 5000 seedlings each year and register 5 - 10 or 20 each year the odds of getting something worthy of registration is slim. You may get lots of pretty blooms but the rest of the plant want measure up to bud count, branching, scape hight and so on. Also most of those pretty blooms will look like something thats already out there.