Most of these where planted in 2016 some in fall 2015. I'm going through all my older seedlings and tossing out all that haven't lived up to our expectations. My wife Krystal hates when I dig up a daylily. She wants to keep them all but the more new blooms she sees the more I think she understands why I've been culling some. Over the next few years we should have some really nice seedlings come from our breeding program and from seeds that I purchased or that where shared with me.
So far this year I have been using a lot of pollen from the following parents
blue jay tapestry
Face maker
Waves of joy
Krystal has been doing a lot of watermarked crosses, while I tend to like big eyes that extend into the sepals. She does her thing and I do mine but we help each other also. She also crosses dips but I have given up on dips and only focus on tets now. Last year I separated all the named dips from the tets so the only dips left near the tets are seedling that are being evaluated but they too will eventualy go to the dip garden. It makes hybridizing so much easier when the ploidies are separated especially when you have a bunch of different daylilies. I basically know what are dips and what's tets now in my garden but with some of seedlings I got as gifts or in trades I'll have to run check the parent's ploidy before I cross them.
