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If I have a tray of VFT seedlings and I grow them all to maturity, what are the odds of having a unique plant that is fit to be registered as a cultivar?
Odds are best if your dealing with genera that contain different species with unique characteristics that you can mix and match for something truelly different.. Even then you would need to grow quite a few seedlings to come up with an all around winner.
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Quote[/b] (SunPitcher @ Jan. 02 2005,6:59)]If I have a tray of VFT seedlings and I grow them all to maturity, what are the odds of having a unique plant that is fit to be registered as a cultivar?
Alex,
If your VFT plants are seed grown, they will naturally be unique genetic individuals. If any or all of them appear to YOU, to be distinctive enough that you could write a description of their unique qualities (not required to be qualities visible to the human eye), then hypothetically, each could be registered as cultivated varieties. Of course, they must be propagated first (cultivated varieties are not individual plants) and each propagule must maintain the unique cultivated varieties characteristics.
There are no esthetic or other limitations as to what constitutes a valid cultivated variety, that judgement is up to each individual registrant. In other words, its "fitness" to qualify for cultivar status is up to you to decide.
I think it'll be very slim. The best chances are when you cross unique vfts with others. Even then out of several hundred seedlings only a couple will might be uniqe. If they are self pollinated or from a population of typical vfts then the chances aren't too good.
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