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beckygardener said:

Now does drying seeds have any correlation to this? The other cups of seeds had been drying for a few days. I planted the CCC03 x Big Snowbird seeds without letting them dry for a couple of days because the 1 seed had already germinated. Could planting them right away have anything to do with quick germination? If the seed coat is not completely hardened, could that cause quicker germination?

Yes, possibly, to most of the above. The black coating on the seed coat forms quite early on and I don't think it would harden or develop more after harvest. It's not a hard seed coat that is the cause of seed dormancy in daylilies although it is in some other plants. I suspect it may be that idea that prompts some people to soak daylily seeds in water, whereas in fact water soaking slows down their germination.