Here are some of James' that have been blooming.

Calamity Jane x Raspberry Mountain




Parrots of the Caribbean x Raspberry Mountain ( both parents are eyed daylilies, but you never know what to expect with the baby)


Violet Becomes You x Electric Red (I've posted this one before but I just love the color of this one and it has great substance and holds up well in the sun)


Cimarron Rose x Stone Beacon


Fantastic Fringe x Lillian's Jinger Bred (I've shown this one too, but it's getting more toothy)

Very pretty!!

Fantastic seedlings -- and you know I love the last one! I do love to see these pictures!

I like the third one best.

with Leslie.

I like the Calamity Jane cross and the Violet Becomes You cross
as first choice. Next, I pick the Raspberry Mountain one. Fantastic
seedlings. Yep, sometimes the babies will surprise.

Last page I love Freds Overheated X Lillian's Banging Mangoes and also Lillian's Lying Eyes x Heather Grace.

Tink I love that seedling on the last page. SWEET.
Also Calamity Jane X Raspberry Mountain and the Fantastic Fringe x Lillian's Jingerbred. I am real curious how some of the others will mature as they are looking good too.

Nice seedling Michele. I have finished setting seed except for the dips, Thursday will be the last day for them, I have to go back to Hattiseburg Friday to judge there show and thats the end of traveling for a while. I am in the process of selecting seedlings as they rebloom to move to the hybridizing area this fall. I have now taken 389 seedling photos, twice as many as last year. I need to narrow that number down to a couple dozen as they rebloom. I will be looking for the best scapes, tall with some branching.
Blooming yesterday.
EMMA'S CURLS X LILLIAN KATHLEEN 9" bloom 10 month Dip

LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL 7" bloom 10 month Dip

HB33 X HEATHER GRACE 6" bloom 10 month

HB33 X (MARTIN BLONDEEL X LILLIAN'S ALABAMA SUNRISE) 5.50 bloom 10 month

I don't envy you your selection process Fred. You have so many nice ones.

Very nice Fred!

OOOOHHHH!!!! I *LIKE* LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL!

I agree with Leslie. I don't know how to cull seedlings. Sometimes I love them the first year and the second year when they bloom I don't like them and end up tossing virtually everything I kept the first year. That is based on the bloom. The second year if I don't like the bloom, I disregard the bud count and branching. I definitely don't have the skills to be a hybridizer.

I have found with some that it's obvious they're keepers. I try to stay with those.
I remember the very first year I had seedlings bloom I had a nine month old with a 52 bud count and you KNOW Dan doesn't fertilize alot! The bloom count wasn't anything special and I asked one of the "big guys" if I should keep it (not Dan) based on the scape. He said "no" and I didn't and have been kicking myself ever since.

Wow, when you think of what might have been... OUCH! But I guess this is how we learn. I love love love those first two seedlings of Fred's -- especially the LAVENDER BUTTERFLY X LILLIAN'S VAPOR TRAIL! What a beauty that one is!!!

The eye and edge ones for me, especially the last one.
I think I have a tendency to cull too much, but a few, very few are
obvious keepers as Leslie said.

Ann we all pull too many seedlings every year then toss most of them the next. From all the seedlings I have posted here I will be lucky if a half dozen make the cut as three year olds. Most of those pretty faces will not have the scape I want to ever leave here.
This is a seedling blooming on the first scape.

This is the same seedling on rebloom, better form and a better scape. This is why I select on rebloom.

The next two seedlings are sibs. (LILLIAN'S LIES AND ALIBIS X CRAZY IVAN) X MARTIN BLONDEEL
You will here people say they can look at a daylily and tell you what its out of, don't believe it.
5.50" 10 month

5" 10 month

It sure is fun to see sibs. Thanks Fred.

I REALLY like that third one, Fred.

Emma's Curls x Lillian Kathleen is quit simply Beautiful in form, and the color is so luxurious that I had to go back 3 times and look at it.That is a KEEPER/

Also love that last on in that batch.

Last sibs. I love the 1st. one and last.