Hazeleyes, if most all those seeds sprout, you'll have just about enough plants for a whole new daylily farm!

Woot! another one. Still hoping for more but am glad I got this many so far.

gudrid x spooner

There's something sooo exiting about seeds!

I crept through wet grass this morning to see if more of mine had sprouted.
Each one is like Christmas all over, poking its little head up in the planting bed.

I have thousands of seeds that I am sorting thru to see what I want to plant. I made so many seeds the past couple of years. I found some that got left out of the fridge and wonder if they are good. I should see if they will sprout.

Good experiment.

I never refrigerate mine, and I get good germination. Sometimes they are on my bookshelf for more than a year, so I think it is worth trying them. I plant mine direct seeded into the ground in late fall here in Ohio, though, so not sure about where you live.

I want to plant fall seeds here this year. No reason that won't work. We have been raising seedlings since 2009 but still have some things to try. Our first few years we started hundreds of seeds inside the house in trays over the winter. We planted the seedlings in the garden in spring. We now produce so many seeds that we can hardly keep up with expanding the gardens. It takes so long to just mark the crosses to know what we have.
It is good to know that daylily seeds can be handled in different ways and still be viable.

Yes, it is.

daylily said:I never refrigerate mine, and I get good germination. Sometimes they are on my bookshelf for more than a year, so I think it is worth trying them. I plant mine direct seeded into the ground in late fall here in Ohio, though, so not sure about where you live.

Juli, where there is cold weather would take care of any chill factor needed. Or do you take seeds from the bookshelf to plant in the Spring?
I know folks in Northern Florida who plant directly in seed trays left outside without fridge time.

A well known hybridizer in my area does put seed in the fridge; since I live in the same area, I'm thinking I probably have to chill mine also.
Or do daylily seeds NEVER need to be chilled and the fridge is just a way of extending seed life?

I have read that most folks do chill for some period; however, there are also very successful hybridizers in Florida who have posted on ATP that they direct-sow with no chill time and have great results. I'd try it both ways to see what works best for you.

I harvest the seed, put them in open top small paper envelopes i buy at the craft store, and let them sit until I plant. They get hard and dry and shriveled up, like raisins. Here in Ohio, I try to plant in late October or more usually, in November. I put them in the soil, and forget them until they sprout in spring. This past winter, we had -28 degrees, so yes, they would get a cold period. I have heard that the seeds which would be more evergreen will go ahead and sprout, then be killed by the winter. A sort of first selection for hardiness done by nature. No proof of that, other than several "old timers" telling me that years and years ago.