Becky, it looks like you hit the extended bloom with long opening jackpot there!
Yesterday's FFO miserable seedling finally more or less opened by very late afternoon....more or less because it was somewhat chalice shaped, and one petal was stuck upright. To add the frosting to that particular cake, overall the bloom color was a muddy pale apricot or peach or something.
What I
should have done was to leave it on the scape and see if it opened further today, but I was so disappointed in it (given the couple of poly buds on the scape) that I didn't even take a picture of it, and I live-headed it when I did the other daylilies last night. (I don't live-head everything... anything near to and easily visible from the back of the house I leave for evening viewing enjoyment, and deadhead the next day.)
This morning brought in another disappointment, on another seedling that has 2 of 4 buds as poly buds. (The buds get a bit of a red tint as they approach bloom, which at least is interesting.) This morning's FFO was a traditional 3x3 bloom; the color is a muddy red, the mud presumably from the pod parent. The bloom has a narrow light midrib too.
And the bloom splotched.
I am going to have to think carefully about how (and/or
IF) to proceed from these two seedlings (and the only reason to do so is because they are tets with some poly buds, so hopefully they are at least partially polymerous... presuming this isn't yet another false alarm, and they never poly again after this season
).
