Re: [AISdiscuss] Re: JT Handbook Revisions

["Deatons" <deatons@earthlink.net>]

I am definitely in agreement with Jim.  2 hours in a 3 year period is NOT
THAT HARD!  Even for a hybridizer.
Cheryl
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Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Re: JT Handbook Revisions


> In a message dated 4/21/2006 2:21:43 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> aitken@flowerfantasy.net writes:
>
> The main  problem I foresee with the new in garden training requirement
> is for  hybridizers who are judges. It is really difficult to ask a
> hybridizer to  leave his/her garden at peak bloom to attend a region
> meeting/JT on the  other side of the region in order to acquire in garden
> training. I guess  the answer to this is to hold a J.T. session in the
> hybridizer's garden, at  peak bloom. Then all can benefit. And should be
> do-able if the requirement  is only for 2 hours in a three year period.
>
> Barbara  Aitken
>
>
>
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> While I appreciate the concern for our most important hybridizers
attending
> Judges' Training, I believe it is very "do-able."  Take just one  example:
> Dave Niswonger.   He hybridizes anything that doesn't  move, from
daffodils
> (early) through SDBs, IBs, BBs, TBs, Species, and Spurias  (late), yet he
> participates in our Judges" Training both classroom and garden,  and
conducts said
> training himself.  And he does all of this and more  despite his physical
> disability.  Any judge who really wants to be a judge  can find the time
and money to
> fulfill the minimum AIS requirements.
>
> Jim Morris
>
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