Wow, your first bloom! Are you going to try a cross -- do you have any frozen pollen? I also have TTLG that I purchased from Maryott's last year on your recommendation, but it hasn't bloomed for me yet. Wonderful eye pattern! Also, is this extra early for a first bloom, or do you usually have one or more at about this time each year?
Betty - Most of the daylilies I grow are for hybridizing some may not have the wow look, but they all have traits I seek. I do have pollen frozen and about a dozen fans to work with it I decide to set pod.
This daylily is blooming out of season but it isn't in a display area, so giving pollen at this point is going enough.
I always have seedlings to work with. My programs don't involve patterned eye, but I will try a few..
Possible seedlings to use.. I will eliminate all but a couple to use in my final selection.
Love those seedlings, Lyle! And I particular love #7 in that group -- and I'm thinking that's one of yours that I've seen before that I just love because it has what I call a "blended eye" -- more subtle and elegant from my perspective -- plus teeth? And #10 looks terrific too -- perhaps it's that subdued eye that I'm drawn too. But which do you think you would cross with THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS -- or will you try them all? They're all wonderful!
Now that I've transplanted some of my seedlings to 4" pots it's really starting to hit me that I'm definitely going to have space problems! And I still have more than half to get out of the seedling tube flats and 1 gal pots in the next couple of months. My enthusiasm once I get going always gets me in trouble because I don't have the space, etc., to follow through well. You'd think I would learn!
Name: Mona Guntown, Ms (Zone 7b) I love nature & everything outdoors
Wonderful!!! I'm so happy to see blooms. I like 6, 7 and 10 the best. Of course I would grow any of them and be very happy!
Thanks Lyle, Now I've got the bug big time. It's only March and I'll maybe get blooms in early May. Haaa, I just realized that's only 2 months away and now that I'm way over 50, uhhh, way over 55, well darn make that just nearly 60, time flies like a jet plane. I've got to get busy, really busy with getting all my pots fertilized so they can jump up and start growing.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
Betty - Some of the seedlings have Rock Solid in the background so i will start with those for possibilities and the then maybe see how easily the others may give up their eyes..A patterned eye with teeth could be very interesting.
Mona - I think we all fell the same when it comes to the bloom season.
Name: Nancy West Central Wisconsin on the (Zone 5a)
Lyle..you have some terrific seedlings to work with! For looks, I like both 7 and 10 as another person mentioned...however one has to consider if the plant habit underneath can do the job also..decisions, decisions decisions! You've only just begun! My 'beginning' starts late June at the earliest...I am thinking you will be done by then??
Lyle, I am liking 4, 7, 9, and 10, but I am still drooling over the
photo of the cross (peppermint pinwheel x pink aloha). Totally
gorgeous color as well as other really nice details.
To cross with Through the Looking Glass, do you have to choose
one with a subtle colored pattern for the two patterns to show up?
Would 7 and 10 work?
