Nightlily said:Name search for this one is coming to an end - the best idea up to now is Clownfish Clubbing - reminds me on Nemo and family

Oh, I love it! It's SOOO much better than where my non-creative mind was going. (Think in terms of "Fiery Melons" )

Nice ones, Sue. I like the name, cute!
Dave, very pretty watermark on Sdlg x Sdlg.

Only one today. This is the first bloom on a rebloom scape. A sib started reblooming yesterday.
Blue-capped Cordon-bleu x Oriental Eyes #3

The seedlings are almost all bloomed out But there are still a few that refuse to give up.

This one got started rather late. It's just now blooming. It's a cross of 'Violet Shadows' x 'Cobraskin Necktie'


'Irving Shulman' x 'Crintonic Rain Dances'


One I showed back in July, but now with the rain today it's looking more 'brown' and a bit tattered, but still'
eye-catching:
'Deepwater Horizon' x 'Allie Katt'



The reverse cross of seedlings I showed previously.
'Ocean Pearl' x 'Crintonic Rain Dances', siblings







From 'Cowboy Scarf' crossed with 'Rainbow Maker'



'Disturbance in the Force' x 'Party Every Day' Sdlg. #4
this one measures 8 inches across



Sorry, I can't get into that tightly-packed seedling row to read the tag on this one...




last bloom on this 'Disturbance in the Force' x 'Party Every Day' seedling




'Pink Princess Slippers' x 'Lillian's Vapor Trail' (posted before but it was a poly)


'Regency Heights' x 'Green Token'





Last bloom on my favorite seedling out of 'Disturbance in The Force' x 'Party Every Day' #24
Sad to see the display end

MrsBinWY said:

Oh, I love it! It's SOOO much better than where my non-creative mind was going. (Think in terms of "Fiery Melons" )

Asking the inner child helps sometimes -

Making progress in this last weeks of the blooming season is a difficult thing - there are still many flowers open but they are:
pale pink, pale apricot or pale yellow - color is missing even if bud count and flower form are quite good - some typical examples:










There are only a few exeptions and I'm working on improving them:

some reds





some browns




very hard to get - very dark ones


and up to now nearly impossible - eyed flowers


Less than 50 seedlings did not start to flower now - half of them are brandnew - maybe some of them will be able to add further color, pattern and distinction.

Celeste - Your seedlings look gorgeous! So many wonderful purples and lavenders. I especially like "The Queen."

Persian Ruby x Rev It Up, seedling 1 (seeds from Celeste - first year seedling, FFE):




Parents:
(Pollen) Rev It Up:


(Pod) Persian Ruby:

Thank you so much, Debra! "The Queen' is definitely one I am proud of. She set multiple pods last year as a one-year old seedling and again this year, has excellent branching & bud count, great substance, large 7 - 8 inch blooms with intense deep color and that lovely white edge. What's not to love?

plasko20....congratulations! Looks like a nice size and good color I'm always happy to see what came of my seeds.

celestialrose said:Thank you so much, Debra! "The Queen' is definitely one I am proud of. She set multiple pods last year as a one-year old seedling and again this year, has excellent branching & bud count, great substance, large 7 - 8 inch blooms with intense deep color and that lovely white edge. What's not to love?

plasko20....congratulations! Looks like a nice size and good color I'm always happy to see what came of my seeds.

More is yet to come. One individual seedling from another cross I got from you (and I have been experimenting with) now has 6 scapes! (photo) I saw 4 scapes last weekend, but 2 new ones have just popped out of the foliage. As of right now it has the garden name "The Great E-Scape".

And it is also less than a year old. Buds are still small, however. Probably will not bloom until September.

plasko20 said:

More is yet to come. One individual seedling from another cross I got from you (and I have been experimenting with) now has 6 scapes! (photo) I saw 4 scapes last weekend, but 2 new ones have just popped out of the foliage. As of right now it has the garden name "The Great E-Scape".

And it is also less than a year old. Buds are still small, however. Probably will not bloom until September.

I LOVE the name! I don't know what it is about my seeds but blooming in their first year seems to be the 'norm'. I expected it to take 2 -3 years in New England. I will be super excited to see what cross this is and what the blooms look like. But WOW.....6 scapes in such a young seedling!

celestialrose said:

I LOVE the name! I don't know what it is about my seeds but blooming in their first year seems to be the 'norm'. I expected it to take 2 -3 years in New England. I will be super excited to see what cross this is and what the blooms look like. But WOW.....6 scapes in such a young seedling!

Ahhh. Um...So, the 6-scape one is an experiment. I treated it with a hormone (descibed in a different thread, I wont repeat here). The other 4 seedlings of the same cross (untreated) have zero scapes between them. Similarly, the PRXRIU201 seedling I showed was also treated with hormone (the other 2 untreated have zero scapes). The great number of scapes is probably not natural but due to the experiment (and what I was testing for - faster flowering).

Last year I collected some "corporate daylily" seeds (from businesses close to where I work - I threw all seeds together in a pile). From these I grew 7 "corporate daylilies". The first one to flower was today. It is yellow so probably a Stella seedling (but much more canary yellow).
I should name it for Sue as it is truly a nightlily. Started to open about 6pm (no photo as neighbors were having a domestic on their balcony), but I got 7pm, 8pm, 9pm pics.
Small flower, so, 'meh'. But I did not know daylilies could do a nightshift.



Edited to add a 9am next day photo (natural light):

I am busy canning right now and haven't had time to catch up yet, but I was out pulling weeds and planting a few prolifs
this morning and saw this seedling reblooming. They have really made gigantic strides with teeth in the last few years,
and mine won't win any prizes, but I liked the size of this one....

Wonderful everyone.

plasko20 said:But I did not know daylilies could do a nightshift.

Some species open in the evening, flower all night and are done at least at noon the next day (e. g. H.citrina , H. altissimas and H. lilioasphodelus syn. flava) - therefore it's difficult to take pictures of H. citrina later in the morning.

I've heard of cultivars that inherited this trait - maybe some of my seedlings can do this too but they are in the seedlings garden five minutes walk from our garden and I have never been there in the evening.

Today there was no time to take pictures - hours were used for culling 3 seedling beds (still 2 left) - maybe tomorrow I will be finished). The weather forecast says rainy and cold next week so I do my best to finish this work as soon as possible.

You are right, Sue.
It is probably more common than people notice because they are not there to see evening flowering.
I luckily have this one on my balcony, right next to the kitchen. So I see it often, several times a day, and it was lucky to flower at the weekend when I spend more time out there.
And I have very few daylilies so they all get extra attention, anyway. I doubt I would notice much if I had hundreds and hundreds to deal with.

PS - Thankfully, this flower is still going strong. It is now almost 2.45pm.

plasko20 said:You are right, Sue.
It is probably more common than people notice because they are not there to see evening flowering.
I luckily have this one on my balcony, right next to the kitchen. So I see it often, several times a day, and it was lucky to flower at the weekend when I spend more time out there.
And I have very few daylilies so they all get extra attention, anyway. I doubt I would notice much if I had hundreds and hundreds to deal with.

PS - Thankfully, this flower is still going strong. It is now almost 2.45pm.

If you have fewer plants you can better find out their specific characteristics - that's the reason why I am now culling seedlings like crazy. Night flowering is perfect for all that are out on the job the whole day (for years saw perfect flowers only on the weekends - early in the morning when I had to leave they were not fully open, late in the afternoon they were melted in the heat).

From todays FFO's only one seedling seems to have some potential - many buds at this time of the year, about 5" flowers and not yellow:
Fall Pink Melon VT (Olallie, not registered) x (RR Red VT (Olallie, not registered) x Suzy Cream Cheese)

FFE
Amusement Park × Star Over Oz
200mm/8"

about 10 months old

Rose F. Kennedy x Emerald Starburst, seedling 1, FFE (LA seeds, received Nov 2020):
Henri winds have knocked the scape to the ground.

Some late seedlings we are watching