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May 30, 2016 8:00 AM CST
Name: Stan
Florida Panhandle (Defuniak Sp (Zone 8b)
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This forum needs a warning label to don a bib. I had to change my shirt from drooling soooo much! Drooling Drooling

Absolute Beauty everyone! Thumbs up Thumbs up Thumbs up
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May 30, 2016 8:04 AM CST
Name: Sabrina
Italy, Brescia (Zone 8b)
Love daylilies and making candles!
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I wrote an idea to be posted on this on forum, with screenshots and short explanations.
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May 30, 2016 9:05 AM CST
Name: Barbalee
Amarillo, TX (Zone 6b)
Good idea, Sabrina! I hope it happens on software for demonstrating a pedigree. Thanks to all who contributed. I'm going a-hunting! Thank You!
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May 30, 2016 11:10 AM CST
Name: Leslie
Chapin, SC (Zone 8a)
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beckygardener said:Fred - You seem to have hit the Jackpot this year with so many amazing eyed and patterned seedlings! Just boggles my mind what YOUR babies are producing when you use them in your hybridizing program.


I agree I agree I agree

Angela, that tall one of yours is great!
Leslie

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
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May 30, 2016 11:31 AM CST
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Name: Char
Vermont (Zone 4b)
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Nice green throat on the first seedling Fred!

Becky, Sabrina, Barbalee, I know how easy it is to get caught up in the moment with off topic conversations. Once someone replies back on topic in a thread it is difficult (impossible) to separate the off topic discussion posts into a new thread. We are almost at the end of the May Seedling thread anyhow, so for now I'm going to leave these posts where they are. If you want to continue the discussion you can copy & paste quote boxes to add your comments from this thread into one of these threads and continue the conversation...

The thread "Hmmmm ... what do YOU think?" in Daylilies forum
The thread "Plantstep Flower Software" in Daylilies forum
The thread "Question about cross and parentage" in Daylilies forum
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May 30, 2016 8:27 PM CST
Name: Daniel Erdy
Catawba SC (Zone 7b)
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I posted this in "May blooms" but figured I'd share them on here also since they are seedlings.

Dizzy Damselfly x French Twist
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Wild Horses x Self?
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🌿A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered🌿
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May 30, 2016 8:29 PM CST
Name: Donald
Eastland county, Texas (Zone 8a)
Raises cows Enjoys or suffers hot summers Region: Texas Plant Identifier
Parents and child were all blooming today, so I took a page from Becky and did this with them. (Dizzy Damselfly X Art Gallery Etching) l to r, seedling below them.
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For me it all boils down to a matter of form. 'Art Gallery Etching' is fetching whereas 'Dizzy Damselfly' and the seedling make me feel a bit woozy Big Grin . They CAN be flat, but they aren't very much inclined to do it often. Appealing color and pattern, so why can't they be flat? Sad .

Otherwise I had two more seedlings bloom this week. The first one is another from a 'Dizzy Damselfly X French Twist' cross. It pretty much looks like the other one. Same color, same size, less suggestion of an eye. It didn't hint at canoeing like the first one, but it's blooming in warmer temps and the first one stopped doing that when it warmed up. The form is fine, but I'm not much taken with that shade of red. The most interesting thing to me is that it's blooming out of a 6" clay pot! I didn't expect those trapped like that to even attempt a bloom and I'm really surprised at the size of the bloom.
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The other seedling, a cross of (Selma Longlegs X Lilting Belle) was growing in a nursery pot that might hold 2 quarts of soil at most and it hasn't been in those spacious growing conditions very long. either. I like the bloom a lot better. Could be I'm easy to please with UFs if they manage the form. I also liked the color. It's really irrelevant, but the petals have an extremely light pattern on them. If you hold your head just right and use your imagination you might detect it. In the sun, it faded to creamy edges by the end of the day. Some blooms fade well and some don't. This one did well.
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It doesn't seem very likely that other than getting a glimpse of how the blooms appear, there's much information about the plant itself. That's probably enough to make a cut on a seedling. I may have four more seedlings that have scapes. Thereabout, anyway.
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May 30, 2016 10:05 PM CST
Name: Becky
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)
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I had a few new seedlings bloom today:

CCC94 - Raspberry Sickle x Jelly Maker (questioning this cross, as there seems to be no resemblance to either parent):

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CCC44 - Lavender Baby Blue x Unknown:

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CCC85 - Adamas x unknown:

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CCC17 - Unknown parentage:

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ZZZ40 - Galaxy Explosion x Lily Munster (another sibling):

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CCC132 - Man in the Moon x Rainbow Maker (I am questioning this cross, as it looks nothing like either parent):

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May 31, 2016 3:40 AM CST
Name: Pat
Near McIntosh, Florida (Zone 9a)
Hummingbirds hybridized this one for me:
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May 31, 2016 4:29 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Fred Manning
Lillian Alabama

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Nice seedling everyone, like the hummers taste.
WARRIORS QUEST X WILD DREAMS) X
LILLIAN'S RANBOW AT DAWN X PEPPERONI MAN 4"
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WARRIORS QUEST X SUBURBAN MARY LOIS BURKETT) X SEEDLING 2.75"
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This will be registered this fall
LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL 7-8"
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Same as above
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May 31, 2016 5:37 PM CST
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Name: Char
Vermont (Zone 4b)
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Fred, you just might convince me to start buying dips again. Absolutely LOVE the first two! You have had an amazing seedling crop this year. Thumbs up
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May 31, 2016 8:03 PM CST
Name: Leslie
Chapin, SC (Zone 8a)
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Char said:Fred... You have had an amazing seedling crop this year. Thumbs up


I agree I agree I agree
Leslie

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15
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Jun 1, 2016 3:47 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Fred Manning
Lillian Alabama

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Thanks for the comments everyone, lets move on to June.
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Jun 1, 2016 4:18 AM CST
Name: Mayo
The Netherlands, Europe (Zone 9a)
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Lalambchop1 said: I agree I agree I agree


I agree I agree I agree I agree Thumbs up
a DL flower a day keeps the doctor away
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Jun 3, 2016 4:15 PM CST
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly"
South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b)
"The mountains are calling..."
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I like the result from the hummers, too.

Amazing patterns, Fred.

I recently returned from a trip to visit DD (in Austin), to find that somehow the deer (who we thought we had finally managed to fence out) had gotten in. Naturally they ate the pods and remaining buds on one new seedling, and all the buds on two sibling seedlings which showed some poly blooms (and which I was anxious to cross together, and backcross against one of the parents). Grumbling I guess I should be grateful, though; while they browsed the daylilies (and the pelargoniums, an agapanthus, and a Drakensberg daisy) near the house, they did not eat the seedlings on the patio. Our garden helpers will be here later today and will hopefully be able to make some fence repairs (if not today, then tomorrow).

Speaking of the patio boxed seedlings, one of them turned out to be a bitone (not something that I was aiming for). The bloom is woefully flawed in that the petals don't want to open (flat, more or less) until late in the day, and the substance (at least on the petals) is a little thin. Glare I tried to take a pic later in the day, but it is a hot day and the bloom (being purple) was in some degree of meltdown. (I'm saving the pollen, and will cross it against purple things here that open well, though honestly, in our climate, just about anything purple will melt and slick.)
Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom
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Jun 3, 2016 4:23 PM CST
Name: Mayo
The Netherlands, Europe (Zone 9a)
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That must have been some very athletic deer, to jump your fence!! Thumbs down

Bummer, about the eaten seedlings and the bitone.... Crying



Mayo
a DL flower a day keeps the doctor away
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Jun 3, 2016 9:05 PM CST
Name: Leslie
Chapin, SC (Zone 8a)
Keeps Sheep Daylilies Hybridizer Garden Photography Cat Lover Hummingbirder
Birds Region: South Carolina Plant and/or Seed Trader Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Level 2 Avid Green Pages Reviewer
Ouch! I'm so sorry to hear of that damage. It's heartbreaking.
Leslie

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Joshua 24:15

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