spunky1 said:


MOON SWORN X WILD DREAMS

Glad to hear Kathleen is ok. Will be watching for the seedlings next year from the first seedling
The second seedling is fascinating! I've looked at it several times today....What an awesome pattern combination.

I am speechless! Some truly gorgeous blooms shown on this thread!

My drooling is definitely impeding my speech! Incredible, all!!

I have heard over and over how a seedling bloom can change over the first 3 years. I have one that has done quite a transformation:

ZZZ73 - Laura Mast x Dragonfly Dawn:

Last year's blooms ... which were the very 1st blooms (it had a small number of buds/blooms that were ALL doubles):



This year's blooms have all been singles and the blooms are a bit larger:



Today's bloom (I think this was taken in the late afternoon):



Pedigree Chart:



I find this quite interesting!!!

It is indeed, Becky:) I love your pedigree charts and zzz73 is nice!

This is a seedling I got lucky with my first cross, years ago. It was when I first started learning and started collecting. It was at my mothers up until a couple years ago. Ive been evaluating for two and this will make the third year. I've reserved a name for it so maybe next year, I'll have my first named CV.

Sweet one, Stan! What'll the name be?? Or is that a verboten question until the reveal day?

Yesterday, I stood like a fool out under an umbrella trying to keep this bud from tearing up yesterday. I waited too long to see it.



Woke up this morning and thought what on earth...thats much a do about nothing.




Picked it and when not hung up on other buds, it snapped into this recurled number. Im not big on recurling, but this one looks pretty darn fine with the green throat and dark purple. If not for the water spots, the color is good. Finally, something thats not mungy. Its a noid

This cross of (Buddy's Khloe X French Twist) bloomed today. Not much influence from 'French Twist' that I can see. This first bloom is a bit larger than 'Buddy's Khloe', but not by a lot and that might not hold anyway.

Things do change and sometimes its not for the best if you liked what you saw first Becky.
Finally I get to see the long awaited Stan intro, hope to see it in person soon.
You did the right thing Pam, trying to protect a new seedling is not uncommon, I like recurves and green!!! NICE
Never know what you will get from a cross, still a nice seedling Donald.

Thanks Char, she gets a little better everyday.
I have had some of the most unusual looks from the small daylilies than I could have imagined two years ago. I have looked at a lot of daylilies the past 25 years and thanks to Elizabeth Salter and a few others I now have some eyes I haven't seen.
These first two sibs bloomed for the first time yesterday,
all though they are not small(5") they are from a small
seedling. The third and smaller (3.50") has the same seedling
pollen parent as the two larger seedlings, so the base color
is very similar.
WARRIORS QUEST X SUBURBAN WREN) X SEEDLING 5"


LILLIAN'S RAINBOW AT DAWN X PEPPERONI MAN) X SEEDLING 3.50"

Those are sure some complex eyes, Fred. Interesting that you got some 5" seedlings from a smaller one.

Fwiw, I like daylilies with some recurve (they tend to be dependable openers here) and that's a nice big green throat on that one, Pam. Good job.

Those are awesome, Fred! I'm impressed!

Just to give you all a break from all of those eyes and large green throats , here is the sibling to my lemon seedling which I posted way back on page 4. (If I posted this before on this thread, my apologies... I did a quick look-through and didn't see it.)

The bloom is smaller than that of the lemon sibling (first bloom was almost to 3.5"; subsequent blooms are somewhere around 3-3.25" - still a small flower but heading in the direction of a mini). I'm not sure if it is an EMO (I haven't been out early enough when it was in bloom). Two of the three fans have 6 buds , the other has a whopping 12 buds.

What is somewhat interesting to me is the color change in this seedling. The lemon sibling starts out as a solid lemon, then fades in color so that by late afternoon it is a paler lemon, but with a darker (same color as in the morning?) lemon throat/eyezone area. This seedling starts out as a solid color somewhere on the spectrum from golden yellow through peach to gold. By late afternoon, the petals have faded in color to almost a near-white, leaving behind a solid throat/eyezone area similar to the original color (somewhere between golden yellow and gold). The contrast between the tepal color and the throat/eyezone color is stronger here than on the lemon sibling.

The substance holds up (at least thus far) during these color changes, on both seedlings. I find the color change somewhat interesting. (With the pathetically low bud count, I'm not sure if I find them interesting enough to keep. I may try a cross or two, if the parent I have in mind blooms for me (it's a new plant), to see if this "feature" (not a bug! ) is retained.)

Here are two images from this second sibling; they are of different blooms, taken at different times of the day:



5-13, at 12:32 pm
The solid color doesn't make this small bloom look all that interesting, does it? Yawn.



5-20 at 6:42 pm In the morning this bloom looked the same in coloration as did the earlier bloom, imaged above. "What a difference a day (er, few hours) makes."
Is this a different flower?! (This image was taken in shade; I tried not to lighten it up too much in Photoshop.)

That's quite a change, maybe you have one of those color changers Polymerous.
(LITTLE MUCHO MINTO X LILLIAN'S RAINBOW FOR A DAY) 3"

LILLIAN'S RAINBOW FOR A DAY X EMERALD STARBURST) 4"

This seedling is now reblooming, I have selected it
to move to the hybridizing bed this fall.
WAVES OF JOY X BUDDYS SPOOK 8"+

Fred, I'm afraid it fails in comparison to your beauties, but it's my first.

Barbalee, I'm not sure I can. AHS rules for Reserved names say it's not to be listed in print or gardens until it is registered.

Polymerous,
The colour change is quite dramatic. I will be curious to see how that one develops.

touchofsky said:Polymerous,
The colour change is quite dramatic. I will be curious to see how that one develops.

I sure agree with Valerie! I'd be tempted to sit and watch it all day!

Everyone's seedlings are so beautiful. I am scrolling and loving them all...breakfast has become soggy French toast. ..oops.

This seedling bloomed today, Leroy x Get Jiggy.

Why is the color so blotchy? It has very tall scapes with good branching. Looks good far away, up close it's a mess. Lol

This is a sdlg Ive had for years, I think out of sc.blood diamond. I keep it strictly for the fun color it has in person. The first is the one Im saving, it has a star center, its siblings have the same color but a nothing throat. I have to move along. Anyway, these pictures were about two weeks ago





This picture is today, it does this changing thing every year, when it turns to the look of this last picture, the orange in the petals also turns to a deep red.