Deryll said:Are we talking to the future hybridizers that will be in every garden someday, is
it just a hobby, or are you creating display gardens?
Interesting question!!
But I think perhaps that, for a person who isn't an established hybridizer yet, the line between hybridizing as a hobby and seeing oneself as a 'serious' hybridizer is not always easy to answer...
When are you 'serious' about it? Is that defined by the number of crosses you make, by the number of seedlings you grow, or the number of plants you register..?
Or are you only serious when you are able to quit your job and can live from selling your plants..
(That last one sounds wonderful to a newbie like me, but I guess it involves a lót of hard, hard work, a lot of stress over the weather and changing 'costumer tastes' and never being able to go on vacation!
)
Perhaps it is all about intent: which one of you takes his/her breeding program serious and aims to register new seedlings with the intent to sell them (and preferably make a profit
)?
Mayo
edited to make some spelling corrections (and hopefully not making new ones.. ;-) )
