I'm still getting a few ffo's and reblooms on seedlings. I don'# think any of these will actually be late bloomers in future years. It just took them longer to get enough sun and moisture this year.

No Boys Allowed X Unknown #4


White Tooth x Skater #2 - One of my cats broke the first scape off when it emerged in early May. I'm glad it rebloomed so I could see it this year.


White Tooth X Skater #4 is having a nice rebloom.

the last one above is my favorite of the three

I love them all!

Margarets Spirit x Thank You Dad


The Jury's Out x (Time Is Nigh x Mascara Snake)


Party Every Day x (Shirley's Delight x Dr McGregor's Garden)


I Love August x Hardy Har Har


Doctor Handsome x Clemson Girls


(Boys Night Out x Judy's Word) x Game Day


Yada Yada Yella x Time to Ponder


Time is Nigh x Mascara Snake


Nana Nance x Unknown


Time to Ponder x Yada Yada Yella


(Curts Gift x Farm Girls) x Grand Daddy - What did I do with all that pollen? One more bud for next post.


(+ 19-30 9-29-04 (VT) (Unreg) x Fred's Red) x Brother Coal 2FE

The pod parent is a seedling I know only as VVL. It just started pushing up scapes about 5 days ago, and when it's going right, it will run out of time before it runs out of buds. And here it is being pod parent with Brother Coal for my newest VL.

Tim, your seedling x Brother Coal is impressive. Looking forward to meeting the sister.
I'm trying to work for lates. So far everything has been early just for spite!

Debra, love the WT x Skater seedlings! Oh my goodness!

Tim, your lates are lookin' good

Three siblings - Gender Equality x Pray Without Ceasing. Tall, many buds, v. good growers, large blooms. Slight differences in the blooms.

Co-incidentally I was also to show a bunch of 4 siblings, but in contrast to above, to show the sheer diversity that can pop out.
Parents previously shown here:
https://garden.org/thread/view...

FFE for C2XC1214:


Also not shown before, C2XC1213:


Previously shown for comparison:
C2XC1212 (the peach stripey one):


C2XC1211:


Those 4 are all that I grew from these fall 2021-germinated seeds.
Although, I think I may have more in the fridge.

Will, Dave and Valerie - Thanks for the comments on the seedlings! I appreciate them.

Tim - So many nice ones from those Davisson crosses! I love the shape of Doctor Handsome x Clemson Girls. (Boys Night Out x Judy's Word) x Game Day has great color, and I like the soft, delicate look of (Curts Gift x Farm Girls) x Grand Daddy. What DID you do with all the pollen?

Sue - That first Gender Equality x Pray Without Ceasing is a stunner!

Orion: The one you were going to throw away [C2XC1212 (the peach stripey one):] is looking better all the time!

Thanks, Debra, and everyone else for the kind words. It was a rainy day, so it's possible I was wasting that pollen. But if it was a Tet and it was blooming, I was trying it.

Orion, your seedling C2XC1211 reminded me of one I had that opened with those tight, canoe sepals. Just so you know what can happen, mine bloomed that way for over two years before it started opening correctly and showed its true face.

2020


2022

Thanks for the info, Tim.
I actually like the canoe-thing on this (well, on the sepals). Makes it look like a ninja-star, all the sharp pointy bits sticking out like that.
I did see another one for sale with a similar look:
http://harmonhillfarm.com/imag...
The sepal canoeing on Tyler's Tattoo (Maher, 2015) seems similar to mine.
I guess only time will reveal the true look of this seedling. Things may indeed evolve.

Another edit: I recall now that that bi-color flower I forced open as I thought I had missed it that day and wanted the pollen before it closed up (image taken in the evening). However, the subsequent bloom revealed to me that it begins opening in the evening before, and I was just panicking for nothing having missed nothing.
The second and final flower (I had to cut the scape to save the seedling) looks slightly less canoey for the petals, although is still unmistakably canoeing:
https://garden.org/lists/item/...

Edited to add: Talking of evolution. My problem seems to be I only have time to take photos in the morning, and sometimes they are not fully open.
Here is my newest one shown above (the one ending in "4": I number them in sequential order of who flowers first), but later on when I got home:


I have a few others that look quite different in the morning and evening.
Having to go around twice a day to photograph seedlings is annoying, though.

Butterfly Music x Little Menehune #7, has two more polys today, and it looks like all the remaining buds will open as polys. These all have been on two rebloom scapes. I wonder if this is just a quirk from all of the rain this month, or if the regular season scapes will send up a lot of polys next year. I didn't take much notice of this seedling earlier this season.

Orion,
Your seedling looks quite different in the evening. It held its colour nicely and looks great. At least it won't be all of the seedlings that would need photos taken later in the day.

The "bagel" form seems to complete later as it has to open up and then fully recurve. I have a seedling that does the same thing although not as colorful as Orion's.

I should point out that weekdays I am out there at 6.30am doing pollen dabbing and taking pics.

I usually get home after 7pm for a second round of pics just before it gets dark.
A lot of the seedlings or daylily cultivars do not wake up fully until well after I am out of the yard. As an example, Ahoya is a late-sleeper not opening well until about 9-10am.

With the days getting shorter and less sunny it will soon be too dark to take any evening pics during the week.

But thankfully I do not have too many new seedlings left to assess. And I hope they bloom on weekends when I have more time. We do what we can.

Excellent looking seedlings everyone. Lots of potential

Debra, the last White Tooth X Skater #4 looks just as good on rebloom. Really like this one.

What a nice group of seedlings Tim! Some of them look like they are on the extra large size. So hard to pick a favorite. The Nana Nance kid would be my favorite, I think...but I kinda like the orange one....and the form & ruffle on the Game Day kid...and the attitude of the Mascara Snake kid, plus it looks like it doesn't flop... and your really pretty VL!

Overall a very good cross with some good looking plants SueVT! It will be interesting to see how they sort themselves out with further evaluation.

You need some EMO in the mix for those early morning sdlg checks Orion. What pretty group of sdlgs from that cross, each one different and keepable (spellcheck didn't like that word) for different reasons. Can't wait to see how they look next year!

There's still a few sdlgs blooming, a couple on rebloom. Here's two that caught my eye this morning.

An odd duck last minute keeper from 2020, a stippled pleated sdlg. Not sure I like the stipple look, but it has escaped the digging fork again this year.

and the keep image from 2020


and an older Sculpted cristate sdlg reblooming