I like the round purple with the bright green throat. From the picture, it seems to be true purple, no munge. Patterns are no big deal to me, some I like, some I dont, some I love, but what I really want is a flower that makes me smile when I round the corner of the house and spot it. If its interesting when I get right on top of it, so be it, but I still want true colors. I have a bad habbit of getting brown, I dont have the knack of imagination, but still trying.

What Betty said about curious to know the cross. My quote thingy didn't work.

My response:
Me too, me too. Very curious here as well. Especially on the third one.
Green throat with light brushing of cocoa, then two shades of a pale pink watermark
as per what my monitor shows.

Nice seedling Larry, we have all planted things to close to something.

I have edited the barkers to show the parents, now you know why there barking.

First bloom yesterday
(TET LILLIAN'S THIN ICE X DRAGONFLY DAWN) X WAVES OF JOY 6"

Still blooming, have several seed pods on it.

Ooooh .... that first one is gorgeous! I KNEW it had DD in it or one of it's children as a parent! Mighty nice!

Love the second one too and am always surprised when the bloom shows NO pattern from DD as a parent. Cool!

Those crosses are fascinating. In my wildest dreams I would have never guessed the last three were sibs. I think its great to see a plant...buddys spook in this case, can make the whole spectrum, nothing is a given, thats for sure.

Fred!

Beautiful Fred. Both of them.

Thanks for the crosses on the previous ones.
Big difference on the 3 sibs, and a show of some teeth on the first one.
So now we know what characteristics come from what.
This is educational, and every bit of information is so helpful.

A little darker color than the others from this cross.
WAVES OF JOY X BUDDYS SPOOK 7"

ANGEL LOVE X TET LILLIAN'S THIN ICE 7.50"

Very nice Fred as usual... Seriously drooling over that top one...

Excellent! Love them both, the first for that incredible eye and the second for that beautiful huge greenish throat! And I sure hope they both make it past the elimination stage!

Nice ones Fred, patterns on reds/purples is what I'm experimenting with,
and that first one looks great.

Love the top one Fred. It's what Big Red Wiggles wishes it was, or at least from the garden pics I've seen of it.

spunky1 said:A little darker color than the others from this cross.
WAVES OF JOY X BUDDYS SPOOK 7"

Love this one! Great color with only a little canoeing allowing it to show all of that fantastic pattern

Gorgeous seedling Spunky1 !

Thanks everyone, I am hoping that after that first bloom and warmer nights the canoeing goes away, I have seen a lot of that in the early blooms of the pattern seedlings. Everything seems to open better above 65* night time temps, we have not reached that yet.
This is the third seedling from this cross and it's huge at 9" with a 12" wingspan.
LILLIAN'S KATELYN JOY X OOPS ANOTHER MIRACLE 9"

LILLIAN'S LYING TIME AGAIN X TO HOT TO TOUCH 5.50"

over that whooper on top, Fred. But the bottom one is very nice too!

Fred,
What is the correct way to measure the bloom size on something like the top one?

You measure from sepal to petal just the way you see it, you only uncurl the sepal and petal to measure wingspan.

Does that mean you measure from the back side of the bloom?

This being the first bloom on this flower I can show
how to measure and how not to measure. When registering
a daylily you want to take several measurement's during
bloom season to get an average size.

You measure from the front, the petal and sepal that
is most close to normal form.

Here the pedal is not normal form.

Here the sepal is not normal form.