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It’s raining so I’m stuck inside – Hybridizer Question – How do you keep records??

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I know may hybridizers keep a hybridization book to record crosses.  Many hybridizers got started before computers were a way of life.  I began keeping hardcopy records 12 years ago but also kept an excel spreadsheet on all my bulb parents and seedlings, to record where they are planted, when they bloom, how they multiply etc.  I am now developing a spreadsheet for selected crosses.  After 12 years I have learned a lot and am re-building my spreadsheets.  Trying to minimizing the effort in keeping records.  Questions for you…

How many keep just paper records?

How many keep electronic records or both?

Would you be interested in my excel/word documents to use to make record keeping and label making a bit easier?

Can you send me a copy of your electronic documentation to see what info you keep.  You might have features I have not thought about.  If so I can incorporate into my spreadsheet.

Because of the rainy day I played around and figured out how to automatically create a Daffseek hyperlink into into an spreadsheet just referencing the daffodil name.    I also create lables in Word based on information in my excel spreadsheet.  I’m willing to share once I get it fully developed.  title=

 

For those of you who could care less about electronic record keeping here is a picture of a 1st year bloom.  13083-2

A show quality 100mm 2Y-Y.  
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1 comment for “It’s raining so I’m stuck inside – Hybridizer Question – How do you keep records??”

  1. Bill,
    I see that your enthusiasm is just great. Keep it up. I keep records of my
    daffodils and my hybrids, but unfortunately, I’m a minimum-est (sic).. I
    keep records of parents, and if they don’t do good in the garden, they go
    to garden clubs as naturalization daffodils as was recommended by some of
    my associates in ADS. Believe me when I say the garden clubs get a lot of
    daffodils. Regardless of how great the parents, it doesn’t always show in
    the prodigy. I have been hybridizing for 20 years and I just learned how to
    do it 4 years ago. Many of my miniature crosses from four years ago are
    beginning to bloom – I’m absolutely thrilled with the number of mini Div 6,
    mini Div 1, mini Div 7 and others I have 1st bloom this year.

    I try to hate daffodils for 11 months of the year, and for one month each
    year (this month), I love them.

    Clay

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