I guess I do keep some sort of record. I do as Fred does and keep seedling crosses in a notebook. I did start putting the cross on the plant tags last year since I don't live at the garden and it was irritating when I wanted to see what a cross was and left the notebook at home.
In 2011 I wrote down beside each cross how many seeds I planted from each and then when I transplanted them I wrote down how many seedlings I had because not all germinated or made it after sprouting. In 2012 I just wrote down the crosses as I planted the seeds and did not keep track of the number of seeds or what germinated. In 2013 I didn't write anything down in the notebook because I was going to after they were transplanted but since I only had around 40 left from over 1000 seeds planted I didn't even bother. The seeds rotted because of the all the rain we had ever single day. Even though they were covered on top so not to get direct rain they stayed too moist (I didn't have to water them at all unlike the year before they got watered just about daily) and most rotted or if they sprouted they died shortly after from too much moisture. The ones that did make it were so little in number that I just made plant tags for them and didn't write anything down but they died from the sleet/snow so no 2013 crosses to keep record of anyway.
This year I will just go back to writing the crosses down in a notebook as I plant them and assign them a number and nothing more.
I do keep photos on my computer of all the ones I have bought new for the year so I know what I have coming but I really don't keep any other records as far as what cultivars I have. I think I said in my original post that I used to use Plantstep but don't now since what I keep each year may change. I would probably still use it if I had cultivars that were permanently here.
