Responding to Sue about searching for offspring of any given cultivar to verify if it is a good pod parent (or not)....absence of offspring is not necessarily an indication of pod infertility. When a hybridizer has a WOW WOW WOW parent, it is not uncommon for them to hold WOW WOW WOW back so that its hybridizing potential can be fully explored in their garden while the hybridizer has an exclusive on it. The offspring may be introduced long before WOW WOW WOW is even registered so parent information of the offspring would be a seedling number. I have been using some parents for more than 10 years prior to actually registering them with many offspring registered first because I'm still working with the plant as an unregistered seedling. So if I do register WOW WOW WOW, all those offspring I registered earlier will not show up in the data search. The reason a seedling such as this is held up for a long time is BECAUSE it is such a good pod parent.
