Right-On Tamlin,
I believe you are precisely correct. Thank you.
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[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I just got The Savage Garden from the library. I've been reading it constantly. Peter D'Amato (the author, as I'm sure almost all of you know) says more than once that you should not sow seed from cultivars.
My opinion is that
The Savage Garden is an excellent text, though not yet 100% perfect.
I remember those passages in
The Savage Garden where seed produced from registered cultivars is encouraged to be destroyed. Tsk tsk, if everyone did this, lots of very wonderful plant cultivars would never come into existence.
As Tamlin and others have mentioned, seed from "selfed" cultivars that grows to embody the exact definition of the parent cultivar ---
is that cultivar. Heck, in the official cultivar definition documents, a cultivar does not even need to have the same parents. In other words (as an example), "cultivar A" can genesis from the cross of "plant A x plant B" or from the cross of "plant C x plant D" and this can happen at any time. All that officially matters is that all plants considered "cultivar A" must fit the written definition and photographic standard of "cultivar A".
Read what is written there about the
Pinguicula cultivar 'John Rizzi'. It defies his admonition to keep careful records of parentage.
I think Peter is just steeped in the SOP (Standard Operating Proceedures) learned from other groups of cultivated plants, such as Orchids, and his book was written before the current proceedures were official. Heck, I had to overcome some of my earlier training and experience in that regard myself.