sooby said:
So you're thinking they're getting into the ATP database before the AHS's? Or am I out to lunch (or maybe supper, maybe I should go have some, it's been a loooong day).
DogsNDaylilies said:
I propose that we have a couple of Bud and Branch update days (or weeks, or months...) on ATP where we all go into our gardens and record the number of buds and branches (terminal Y counting as 1) our plants have and start updating the database.
beckygardener said:Are tet conversions listed under the original dip name?
Joy said:So that must mean that tet conversions are registered then? I didn't know this.
Char said:
Firstly, anyone doing this should read and more importantly understand how to count branching. A terminal "Y" is counted as 2 branches, not 1. An explanation of how to count branches can be found here...
http://www.daylilies.org/ahs_d...
There are more downsides than where someone is from to consider....Who is going to check that everyone is accurately counting what they see in their garden? Are we talking average of a number of scapes, individual scape....What happens when someone makes an entry this year on a daylily and next year the branching has changed, for better or worse...who will monitor that not only is the branching different that year... in that persons garden..., but that the person needs to change or add the new information....How about the person living where rainfall is plentiful compared to drought, or potted being pampered with every nutritional need met....is it even possible someone could go through and post branch counts without even growing the plant ...just to collect acorns? Just how accurate and useful will this new information be?
We already have a very well thought out system for storing, entering, changing and commenting on plants in the database. If you want to comment on a cultivars performance in your garden, fill out a comment including how you grow the plant with that performance and collect your acorn. We live in an "I want it now" society, sometimes we need to slow down and see what is already available to us before proposing changes that may not be as easy to implement as they first seem.
Whatever is decided will be decided...just adding my 2 cents