I have a seedling which is driving me mad. It's in a #2 pot, sitting in a planter box on the patio, which it shares with two other seedling daylilies, which are also in #2 pots. (The problem seedling is sitting between the other two seedlings.)
The other two seedlings are doing fine - they are blooming, the blooms are opening properly, no buds are lost, no problem. (Well, other than that they are not potential Stout Medal Winners...
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THIS seedling, almost every bud fails to make it to maturity. The buds kind of look like they are shriveling and drying up, and then they drop off. When a bud does manage to make it to Bloom Day, it doesn't open fully, but rather maybe halfway.
All of the seedlings get watered at the same time, and the planter box does not drain, so there's a little bit of water left in the bottom (which has a layer of gravel). That tells me that this is probably not a drought phenomenon.
Any ideas as to a cause or a cure? I don't recall it doing this last year. (Please don't tell me to throw the seedling out... it's a poly seedling!)
