tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post6105308962823641080..comments2023-10-06T05:33:22.562-05:00Comments on a girl and her garden - a daylily blog: When I am Queen...Nikki Schmithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04403289853738948642noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post-66805501741613776912010-01-07T18:33:20.680-06:002010-01-07T18:33:20.680-06:00Her Majesty is right to question the arbitrariness...Her Majesty is right to question the arbitrariness of the number. Why $100? Why not $98.50? Or $111? When I was a child, my Barbie dolls had a boutique where they would sell their belongings to each other. The price on every item was $17.93. The little pink sandals...the wedding dress...the convertible (yes, I was a little spoiled). I haven't a clue where that number came from. But now that I think of it, it looks like a possible lottery winner to me.Elhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03710575788299838444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post-90687118862512677992010-01-07T14:20:54.418-06:002010-01-07T14:20:54.418-06:00Hail to the Queen! :o)
TeeHail to the Queen! :o)<br />TeeTeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531559830977449894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post-535564061031616652010-01-06T17:32:50.140-06:002010-01-06T17:32:50.140-06:00Dear Anonymous~ Thanks for stopping by! I apprec...Dear Anonymous~ Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate the time you took to read my first declaration as queen. <br /><br />First, I never debated the investment a hybridizer has in their babies. I question the arbitrary, customary $100 price tag that gets slapped on almost every new intro out there. There is no formula that calculates that it costs every hybridizer the same to raise it to market. It is no coincidence that everything is this arbitrary $100. Phyllis (the commenter before you) hit the nail on the head. It is misperception that price=quality.<br /><br />Now, the seedling has won a JC? <br />That's credibility. <br />That's a proven commodity. <br />But the JC list is a small list each year compared to the hundreds of hybridizers that are putting out flyers with their $100 price tags.<br /><br />I know you know I'm a friend of the hybridizer. All of them. <br />I'm a true supporter of entreprenurial ventures of any kind. <br /><br />But I'm also a realist and I feel taken advantage of as a daylily consumer when the assumption is made that anyone can ask at least $100 for an intro when they have no "cred" in the industry.<br /><br />I am really appreciative of your comment and your point of view. I hope you come back for more daylily tales...I do much more than declare myself queen! :)Nikki Schmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04403289853738948642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post-89779484890025981272010-01-06T16:10:18.597-06:002010-01-06T16:10:18.597-06:00Dear Queen,
A new hybridizer should not intro at...Dear Queen, <br /><br />A new hybridizer should not intro at anything over $100? And provide a double fan, as well? <br /><br />That hybridizer may have been working for 10 years to produce and perfect his/her first intros. And "not a proven commodity"? That's ridiculous. He/she has observed those new intros for years and they most certainly are proven to him/her and quite possibly other visitors to their garden. <br /><br />That new intro may also have won a Junior Citation or one of many other regional awards for seedlings. It wasn't just the hybridizer who recognized that plant as special, it was many other people.<br /><br />I respectfully submit that you need to climb down off of that throne and proceed to the Time Out chair.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8373034784624356972.post-7981035199085745112010-01-06T14:32:43.551-06:002010-01-06T14:32:43.551-06:00Dear Queen,
When you do this, please also mandate ...Dear Queen,<br />When you do this, please also mandate that all humanity no longer equate price with quality. (As in...It's only $20? What's wrong with it?) You raise an interesting point but until the price/quality perception link is broken, I doubt there will be much change in the current practice. <br />This strong 'link' manifests itself in other ways; a couple of years ago a friend confessed to using a particular pollen quite heavily just because it was the most expensive plant in the garden . Luckily, she has since come to her senses and an intervention was not necessary.<br />Kindest regards,<br />PhyllisPhyllis Enriquezhttp://arborlodgedaylilies.comnoreply@blogger.com