Thanks for the nice comments. I would like to say a few words about seedling selection and what I look for in choosing a daylily for possible registration. First thing that draws a person to a daylily is the bloom and I'm no exception, but we must look at the whole plant from the ground up. The second thing is it must rebloom, I make my selections on rebloom. The third thing I look at and the most important to me is the scape. It must have good branching and bud count, at least four branches and 18-20 buds minimum. The last thing is the foliage, this is what will be seen most of the year. I really don't think I have ever seen a registered daylily that had unsightly foliage.
I plant about about 2000 seedlings per year and on a good year will move about 50-60 to the hybridizing area to watch them a second year and make sure they are pod and pollen fertile, I would never register a sterile daylily. This second year is when I really watch the scape for branching, bud count, height, and bloom size. From this 50-60 I may keep a dozen to watch a third year and from that 12 I may register half or less of the them after lining them out to make sure they don't die when moving them. So from 2000 seedlings I may end up with 6 that I think are exceptional. The ones I sell on the auction have some trait I don't care for, some will turn out to be nice daylilies because they are only 18 months old when I select them to put on the auction. Several people have registered my seedlings so I have let some good ones get out of here. The other 99% are composted. This is a couple of scapes from two I pulled last fall.
A couple more 
This is the flower on the HB3 scape
I'm in Dallas, zone 7-8
I am also going to use Carved Initials on it. As for how long I've been doing this I've gown daylilies since the 80's and been hybridizing since the ealy 2000's. The cross shown here is ((Sherry Lane Carr x Victorian Lace) X (Bass Gibson)). What suprised me about it is that it is nearly an 8" flower and both parrents were only about 5". It was not at all what I expected but I am very pleased with it.
Long cross involving LILLIAN'S ALABAMA SUNRISE.
EXOTIC TREASURE X THOMAS TEW 5" 7 month.
FACE PAINT X HAPPY HAPPY 5" 7 month
ZAHADOOM X BLUE LAKE 5.50" 18 month I don't do many purples anymore because most bleed so bad in the heat here in the deep south,I am hopeing this is the exception, it has a killer scape with 4-5 way branching. 
Their all lovely!
