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I am another one who loves diamond dusting . My best guess is that to improve the degree of diamond dusting, you need to cross your seedling with something else that has the trait, and the more extreme, the better. Unfortunately, I have few suggestions for mates for your seedling (which has a lovely color, by the way ). 'Dancy Nancy', as I recall, had a great deal of diamond dusting, but it may not have the plant traits that you want, and my guess is that it might muddy the color. But maybe you can look at the parents - perhaps one of them can be used with your seedling to bring out the bling? (I'm just guessing here. The most notable seedling I had for diamond dusting was a diploid which was a grandchild of 'Sparkling Opal', which was extremely diamond dusted. I still think, though, that your best bet is to find something else which has prominent diamond dusting, rather than merely having it in its background.)



You might do a search on the web (too bad the data base does not have "diamond dusting" as a yes/no attribute) and see what pops up. I did a Google search and found comments on another forum, which suggest that 'See His Glory' might be worth pursuing. It has both 'Ed Brown' and 'J.T. Davis' in its background. The latter has enough yellow in it that I would not use it as a pod parent. I don't know about diamond dusting on the former, though I find it suggestive that it is in the background of 'Dancy Nancy'. So that makes two more daylilies for you to check out (depending on what you are looking for in scape height and bloom size and other important attributes which should not be overlooked). Both of those last two reputedly have some degree of rust resistance (so maybe 'See His Glory' does also), which imo is a good thing to have.



Good luck to you - we need more diamond dusted daylilies!