Growing Daylilies from Seed

[Guff]

Four seed pods set.
2x Precious Candy
1x My blue eyed seedling
1x with it's own pollen.



Did buy a fan of Yoga Man.

[Guff]

Collected seed pods, not many.....

2x Precious Candy pollen  (5 seeds total)
1x My blue eyed seedling pollen (2 seeds)
1x with it's own pollen (2 seeds)

Put up a second scape, around Easter a flower should be open. Will be interesting to see if it changes.



Video of the single flower form.

[Jeffnz]

That is a great seedling, did it follow either parent?

[Guff]

Jeff, thanks.

I'm going to do a back cross at some point. Not sure if the Yoga Man that I bought will flower come Summer(haven't received it yet). Every Knee Shall Bow cost is too high to buy at this point, $200+ for one fan.



Yoga Man
https://ladybugdaylilies.com/product/yoga-man/
https://garden.org/plants/view/665682/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Yoga-Man/

Every Knee Shall Bow
https://springwoodgardens.com/intros21/EVERY%20KNEE%20SHALL%20BOW%20.html
https://garden.org/plants/view/797260/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Every-Knee-Shall-Bow/

[Guff]

Semi-Double.......

Yoga Man x Every Knee Shall bow

[Jeffnz]

Exquisite.

[Guff]

Jeff thanks.

Today's flower

[Guff]

Last flower.

[Jeffnz]

I like both colours, appears that the partial doubling is a dominant gene.

[Guff]

Finally getting around to starting new seedlings.

So far

8x Bella Sera x Linda Beck
19x Blue eyed seedling x Precious Candy

[Jeffnz]

Look forward to seeing the outcomes.

[Guff]

Seedlings are growing very well.

Changed up my mix again
10 parts compost
2 parts  vermiculite
2 parts perlite

Next round going to try it with 3 parts perlite.

Have 5 seedlings of this cross, bonus seeds.
JOY CAME DOWN
https://springwoodgardens.com/intros15/joy.html
X
EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW https://springwoodgardens.com/intros21/EVERY%20KNEE%20SHALL%20BOW%20.html

[Jeffnz]

Great looking parents should be an exciting cross to wait for.

[Guff]

Should get some red-cranberry colors, hopefully with a fancy edge. Going to be grown through the Winter, maybe next Summer will see some flowers.

Some new seedlings are going to have their first flowers open in another week or two. Hopefully see something blue, or special that I can use.

Not going to do many crosses this Summer, still have lots of seeds from last Summer still to start. Some are going to be grown in tubs, just dont have room to grow all of them in solo cups and pot up.