How Are New Plant Varieties Made?

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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While propagating plants is fairly easy, developing cultivars with desired traits can take several generations. There are a lot of surprises in the process, too. Ryan McEnaney of Bailey Nurseries provides a little BTS look at the company’s focus on creating new plants.Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3vsgw4MBotanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/497ZvKYBook Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3voLASUEG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4a7bTfgLearn More:13 Low Maintenance Hydrangeas that Thrive on NeglectConnect With Ryan McEnaney:Ryan McEnaney is a fifth-generation family member leading marketing at Bailey Nurseries, as well as a garden designer and author. He is passionate about connecting people to nature and encouraging home gardeners to enjoy digging in the dirt. He travels the country educating homeowners on how to be successful in their growing ventures. His approach revolves around making gardening fun, breaking down barriers, and welcoming collaboration. Ryan’s first book, “Field Guide to Outside Style” helps home gardeners discover their own style for designing their outdoor space. Instagram Bailey Nurseries Instagram Bailey Nurseries Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order.Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	New plant varieties come out every single year across pretty much every category of plants.
0:18.0	You see new vegetable varieties, you see new flowers, you see new trees, and we have someone on the show who has a lot of experience
0:26.1	with this we have Ryan Mackinini back on fifth generation family member
0:29.7	leading marketing at Bailey nurseries and you guys are really well known I think for your
0:34.5	hydrange lines Ryan and specifically that endless summer one we talked about earlier
0:39.2	but you have this new one eclipse big leaf hydrange. I'm not really a hydrange a guy yet. Maybe I will become
0:45.2	one after this. However, like what I'm curious about is just how do you make a new one?
0:51.4	Yeah, and the confusing part about this, right, is like some of these new genetics is where do they come from?
0:58.7	And so the remotency, that re-blooming trait like we talked about earlier this week for on the summer, was kind the and with our partner Dr Michael Dure, but then sometimes you get kind of a weird unique thing that just pops out.
1:16.6	Like Eclipse, like we're going to talk about. Eclipse Hydrange is the first Garden Hydrangea that has this really beautiful dark purple almost black leaf
1:26.0	and you can start to see some of that maybe in the different generations of breeding work that's being done
1:32.0	but it can be a really long process through multiple
1:36.1	multiple generations to be able to get exactly what you're looking for.
1:39.7	Yeah, so I've studied this in various different areas of the plant world.
1:46.4	Like I was just researching the Karakar Orange and at least my understanding right now is that
1:51.6	it is either a Washington Naval cross with some sort of
1:55.6	blood orange in Venezuela or it was just a Washington Naval orange. There's something
2:00.5	called a Bud sport that can happen.
2:02.5	It's just like a total random mutation
2:04.7	on the exact plant of a Washington Naval.
2:08.4	And so like one random bud just happens to mutate.
2:11.9	And then if you're smart and catch that somehow and then and then
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