I wonder how many people keep bud/branching data in their own records for each plant they own. Do you? (I have photos from this year to help me determine what has thick/thin scapes for hybridizing, but the bud/branching thing is hard for me to guage because this is year 1 for all of mine, so i don't trust the results until they are established next year.) If people record this kind of info, we could easily gather it and combine our results. If you think anonymously-submitted data would be better, I'll bet there's a way we could do that.
I'm open to suggestions, that's why I started this thread.
Many heads are better than one, atleast in this instance.