Thanks for the comments. I have to agree with Larry .... after pulling so many leaves due to rust and leaf streak, my poor plants look kinda sparse. But it does help keep them from becoming too crowded allowing more air flow between them.
Whether they have enough energy stored to produce blooms this year is yet to be seen.
Seems overhead watering is part of the problem for both rust and leaf streak. I guess I need to consider soaker hoses throughout my daylily raised beds instead of micro-sprinklers OR do the watering in the middle of the day so the foliage dries quickly.
I checked out the Cleary 3336 and it is quite expensive. I don't know if I want to spend the money and add chemicals to my garden. I am not keen on doing that at all. This is such a dilemma for me.
Sue - Thanks for the links on leaf streak and Spring Sickness. I've had Spring Sickness too on a few daylilies, so I do know what that looks like as well.
All I can wonder is .... is there anything at all that I DO NOT get here that attacks my daylilies?
Sue also mentioned a link to leaf-streak resistant daylily cultivars on this post on another thread that I read:
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd....
I do have Siloam Double Classic (on the list for both rust resistance and leaf streak resistance .... or at least that is how I understood it to be) and it does hold up well to a lot of ailments known to attack daylilies in my own garden. I think I need to get Buttered Popcorn, too, and a few others and use them in my breeding program. Maybe using some of these resistant cultivars with others would create some seedlings with nice foliage year round? My breeding ideas are getting narrower and more singularly focused. So complicated to get a nice daylily to grow here in the south without chemical treatments.
