There has been no objective reporting of any result that indicates any advantage for pod over pollen parent or vice versa for any characteristic in daylilies. It is assumed that if one is interested in green/white leaf variegation that the pod parent should show the variegation and that the pollen parent does not transmit the variegation. This is not necessarily the case but it is often the situation in other plant species.
There are always practical considerations that one should examine when deciding in which direction to make a cross. For example, is one of the parents pod-sterile or is one of the parents pollen-sterile. Does one of the parents produce many large seeds as a pod parent and the other produces fewer or smaller seeds as the pod parent.
