wonder if there have been threads on them? If not could people pls comment. I am interested in the following:
which cultivars exhibit this phenomena?
is it an inherited trait?
is it more common with Dips or Tets?
if a cultivar does proliferations every year on most scapes:
- does it not make lots of new fans sideways;
- is it hard to set pods on it, or is the pollen ineffective?

It cld help to identify/exclude possibilities for NOIDS. My big red one always makes them. It flowers often and is almost rust free.
When I saw a pic by Larry in a current thread I wondered if it could be Crimson Pirate. But it can't be. Mine has had scapes taller than 66" and blooms are over 6". Also mine does not increase lots 'sideways' as described by some members. My blooms are probably darker also tho they do vary a bit. I've had it more than 8 yrs and only once seen a bee pod on it. Sadly I don't have time to play pollinator

I'm not an expert on this and just a few of my daylily cultivars show regularly some proliferations every year (e.g. Pumpkin Kid).

But one of my own plants (Gekko Garden September Scent) has lots of proliferations on nearly every scape every year and the plant grows and flowers like crazy. Every proliferation I harvested grew up to an adult plant within one year so my conclusion is that something within the genetics of this cross causes the phenomenon. Both parents of this cross (Watermelon Summer VT - Olallie, not registered and August fire) have never shown a single proliferation up to now.

I tried to find a picture - this is not the best but usually I take pictures of the flowers and not of the whole scapes:

Hi, Bron--there are several threads on proliferations; just use the search box. Make sure you search the Daylilies forum and not garden.org.

I seem to remember reading a thread with a list of cultivars that produce prolifs, but I can't find that one. This older thread does mention several cultivars that produce proliferations:

The thread "prolifs revisited" in Daylilies forum

I've had prolifs regularly on Joan Senior and Frankly Scarlet (the unregistered one sold by Oakes Daylilies) but have had indifferent success growing them. I am too forgetful to tend to them. I have had one or two I planted successfully next to the parent plant.

If you want proliferations with a great success rate, it is So Lovely--at least this one has always been outstanding for us. I have shown this many times before but here are a couple of refresher pictures.



One mother plant has produced all of these, plus countless more that we have planted in other areas and we have also given away quite a few.

Wow, Avedon--you may have shown those pictures before, but I have never seen them! Very impressive! I have So Lovely, but I think I need to move it because it hasn't performed the way I think it should.

I went back and read the thread "prolifs revisited" and it just reminded me of how poor my memory is. David "Bedmaker" showed a photo of a plant with four stems coming off of the scapes, all with single buds. I had a seedling do that recently and I now think they are referred to as stems when they come off the scape like that with just one bud, because a branch has to have at least two buds.
The most prolifs I have ever had on a plant was 'Green Arrow': I potted them up, the squirrels destroyed most of them but a few survived.

Nightlily said:
I tried to find a picture - this is not the best but usually I take pictures of the flowers and not of the whole scapes:

Forgot to mention: this picture was taken at the end of September - this is the reason for the not perfect look of the leafs. The stems of the scapes turn very dark at the end of the flowering season of this very very late flowering cultivar.

on Green Arrow. Lots of proliferations.

I have a seedling only a few months old. It has just 1 or 2 leaves.
But it made an itty-bitty scape, with what look to be a proliferation on top?
Thankfully, a tiny new fan also appears to be emerging in the bottom left corner of the zoomed image (because the first fan is sure to die).

Do proliferations grow their own roots? I have heard people dunk them in water after detaching them, for a week or two, to grow secondary roots (implying they have primary roots already?). But none of the photos of prolifs seems detailed enough to show the roots, focusing on the leaves instead. My teeny prolif has no roots....yet.

If you can blow this photo up some, in the top row you can see on the first three prolifs small white roots forming.

I do see those, Larry. Thanks.

I forgot to add a size marker to the last pics, just so you can imagine how tiny the seedling is. Here it is again, with a quarter.


Also, an update on my first attempt to forcefully grow a proliferation.
The little nodule I induced has now become 2-3 possible leaves. I have now moved the plant outdoors into real-world weather conditions.

Prior pic here: https://garden.org/thread/view...