@admmad ,. Maurice, are you still interested in self-crosses?
I did a number of self crosses with one of my diploids, Olallie Keith Stone's Sunset, not truly expecting much, but it was the only thing blooming (and I didn't feel like thawing frozen pollen)... It loved itself! I have normal seeds from it. I selfed several other cultivars and I'm pretty sure a few took, but I'm still waiting to see if pods abort or stay. I just did a Heavenly Tiger Tails self the other day. I've also tried Tuscawilla Tigress settled, but it isn't a super fertile pod parent to begin with, so if that failed, I wouldn't dismiss it as unable to self-pollinate. Going back to diploid, I crossed Olallie Keith with itself, again, because it was the only dip blooming, and so far so good, but the pods haven't ripened yet.
Re-reading some of these posts got me to thinking...I could not set a single pod on Spiderman (Tet) this year. I think I did get a couple of pods from it as a pollen parent, but I remember last year that it was the pollen parent I listed with a diploid pod parent (Olallie Keith Stone's Sunset). I am reconsidering the idea that it could be triploid... Or maybe even a chimera? I think I saved some of its pollen.... I'm going to try it on my Olallie Keith, which is still blooming.
By the way, I realized this post makes it sound like I only have the or four cultivars of daylilies, LoL, but it is purely coincidence that my two Olallie-with-Keith-in-the-name cultivars tied into both topics I was talking about.
