josieskid said:
So what I did was pretend there was only one, and name it a combination of the parent names. Such as, JAG X MASTER, QUOTING X DANCING, and LIKE X HEAVENLY. Later, if there's more than one keeper, I'll give them each a unique number or name. I LOVE how easily you can always add and edit! When I plant them out this spring, I'll be able to add which bed, row, etc...
Does this sound like it'll work? I'd love to have some thoughts on the matter!
I think for me, step one should have been to come up with a system to create my hybridizer codes and then enter all of them. I was lucky that I had a system I had used last year of abbreviations that with a little modification I was able to use for my codes, saved a lot of time, when I finally realized that's what I should have done to began with.
Then step two for me should have been to use the "HYBRIDIZE MATCHER' to create my crosses, with no instructions I made the huge mistake of entering them all manually and skipping over this part, it caused all sorts of problems and extra work.
Then we get to step 3: The seeds and seedlings part that gets so confusing it seems for most of us. Being I already had many seedlings I had entered into the program, and they had been in the fridge and already out of the fridge etc. many of the normal entries would not need to be filled in.
So I actually planted some seeds and watched them as they progressed into little seedlings so I could experience each stage of the program and see how the info was entered along the way...wish I had done that on day one! I saw I had made many mistakes by doing things manually and not following the normal steps.
Finally getting to my answer!
I think the best thing to do is to wait until you plant your seedlings to create them and thus name and number them by the program automatically.
My seedlings being in cups may have several seedlings in a single cup, but for one reason or another only one or two may actually get planted: ex. one might be an albino, one might just be too small.
So when you get ready to turn a seed into a seedling the program will use your hybridizer codes and your names from your crosses to give each seedling a name and a sequential number, I like how that works. I think from what I can determine so far, that is the best way. Will look forward to others replies.
Here is a screen shot showing some logged in seedlings where the name and number have been given to each "Created Seedling".
I did this step too early and now will have to delete a lot of these when I actually plant them out in the rows in the beds.
