Background history:

'Matthew Martin' is a dormant tetraploid introduced in 1992 by Dougherty. Was not able to find information on the hybridizer.

Matthew Martin is an early to mid-season bloomer with extended bloom. The bloom color is described as "brown". It is the parent to 1 registered child:
http://garden.org/plants/paren...

This plant can be found in the ATP Plant Database at:
Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Matthew Martin') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Matthew Martin')

MATTHEW MARTIN is a rich chocolate brown that increases well,has a lot of buds,and is fertile both ways.Most people that see it in my garden love it.It is a dormant.

This is right now reblooming for me on new scapes. The deer ate the first ones it put out, and it grew new ones later on. I'm not sure if the others had matured and bloomed if it would have grew new ones or not (?)

First year blooming for me on a plant purchased from a member last year. So far all the blooms have been a dark red color. However, since it has started blooming the days are mostly cloudy with lots of rain. Many blooms are not the correct color in my garden so I'm sure Matthew Martin isn't either.

Matthew Martin is listed as a Tet, and its one child plant is listed as a Dip.
For those who have bred it, what did you get set onto it, or use its pollen on? Successful crosses?
It's a new one for me this year (2022 fall planted) and it looks like FFE tomorrow. I bought it because it was listed as a Tet and I had plans for those golden grains on some of my Tet seedlings...

2023 Update: After crossing this with a most reliable breeding tet (for me) with Sun Bear as a pod parent, and using many dip pollen parents, it seems that Matthew Martin is definitely misidentified as a tet. It appears to be a fairly pod fertile dip as I collected great Matthew Martin x DIP pods and not one TET x Matthew Martin pod.

I'm disappointed that I didn't do more research into its one kid- I would have seen the dip registration and possibly not bought it. Yet, I'm not disappointed with it as a flower and I have some hope for it as a breeder for what I'm trying to achieve although I am further ahead in the TET seedling department.