Hello Everyone,
I just noticed this thread about Ron's new introductions. I have known Ron for a few years and now and can tell you that his methodologies are very good. I wrote a two-part interview/blog series on his hybridizing program back in the winter of 2012/13. For any of you who would like to know about the background of his program, or more about his program in general, you can check the entries at
http://www.daylilybreeder.blog... In honor of Ron's new introductions, I have bumped the first part of the series back up to the top spot on my blog, so you can find it easily without having to search for it and the second part is linked at both the top and bottom of the part-one entry. As well, there are links to Ron's website where you can find his lovely new introductions. For those interested in rust resistance or breeding for resistance in general, there is also a series of thirteen posts from last winter on that subject at my blog. Just look through the blog archives in the right hand column. The resistance breeding series began in November 2013.
While Ron's patterns are astonishing, my very favorite of his seedlings, and now introductions, is Ethereal Lavender.
I noticed someone in the above thread asked about Ron's work with tetraploids. Unfortunately, he doesn't work with tets, only with dips, but I would suspect there is some very fertile ground amongst Ron's dip intros for someone who might want to convert any of them to tetraploids...
Best,
Brian Reeder
