I had a late seedling bloom unexpectedly this year. The seed was harvested in 2014 and unfortunately I wasn't a good record-keeper that year. Here is the seedling:
I know the pollen parent is Holly Hill Reward from the tag I found with the seeds (left in a jacket pocket for months with no indication of the pod parent).
So now I'm trying to figure out who is the mama. I apparently wrote all my crosses done down on paper that year and now I can't find it. What I do have is a list of all the dips I had blooming at the same time as HHR. It started blooming August 1 that year and in 2014 I had very few late daylilies so the list is short. Here are the possible cultivars in alphabetical order:
Becky Lynn
Double Sunset Glow
NOID
Watermelon Summer (unregistered)
Sorry about the pictures. They were just to document what was blooming that day so I could enter it in the computer later.
As a novice hybridizer (this is my sixth seedling to bloom) I'm stumped. I assumed the red eye from HHR would be dominant but obviously not. I'm not interested in registering daylilies so it's not imperative that I solve this mystery. But I wonder if people with more experience with seedlings would be able to figure it out. If so, could they explain how they figured it out?
I have more seedlings from this cross that might bloom next year so that might narrow the list further.
