I have not posted on this thread because I am too busy cutting proliferations off of daylily scapes. I have never seen so many prolifs as this year. We have a seedling bed where 40 or 50 of the new seedlings bloomed this year for the first time. I have cut 50 proliferations so far and there are still several left on blooming, reblooming, and scapes with pods to get later. Most of them have proliferations and many have at least 2. I started on another seedling bed and cut over 20 from the first year seedlings in that bed. We are cutting prolifs off of our registered daylilies as well and from the looks of things will have a hundred from them. I need a full bed for the 200 or so proliferations we will plant this year.
I don't know what is going on here. The rebloom and proliferations are something like I have never seen before. I have new baby scapes just starting this week on several plants, both seedlings and registered ones. It is almost 100 degrees and we are inches below normal rainfall since April. Last year we had over 35 inches of rain by this date. This year we have had 14 inches. May and June are our wettest average months and we got 2 inches of May rain and 1.1 inch in June. It has rained one time in July. The daylilies don't seem to care. Hope they don't all die after such a performance.
