Nice seedlings Larry, the first year seedlings normally will bloom earlier than the parents, after the first year they will settle down and bloom at the correct time.
I agree about the three year thing, most daylilies have to stay in one place for a length of time to show there potential. Here it's a little different because we have hardly any winter and they recover much faster, so I know after the second year if I will register the daylily or not. I also have a selection process that works really well for me, I never select a daylily until it reblooms, the rebloom will show me what scape improvement has taken place, like height, bud count and branching. There can be a big difference between that first scape and that rebloom scape on a first year seedling. The second year should show good all around scape improvement. None of the seedlings I have posted have been selected to keep because none have rebloomed. The bloom itself will basically remain the same, may get a little larger and the weather can cause some slight changes in the color.
This is a seedling that Kathleen ask me to keep, its
been in the same place four years, a huge clump,
branched like a tree, now I have to go back to my
archives to see what the parents are.
LILLIAN'S RAINBOW AT DAWN X SUBURBAN WREN) X SEEDLING 3"
). These blooms make me even more excited!
The bloom did not open properly, and now I am left scratching my head wondering if that was due to our cool/cold night, or perhaps too dry of a seedling bed (it is a raised seedling bed on drip irrigation, which gets the drip on Tuesdays and Fridays per drought restrictions), or if it is just the seedling itself. The cross was ARCTIC LACE x BALLERINA ON ICE. (It has been my observation that although BALLERINA is maybe a CMO - at least I read that somewhere - it does not seem to do that well here in that regard. Or maybe that plant also is not getting enough water.)
