At least I have an excuse for bad budcounts ... we've had 2 hurricanes within 8 months of each other. The daylilies are in shock!! After the last storm, I dug all my plants (at different times), added new soil and fertilizers and replanted. Some of the plants took off and had great bloom seasons with outstanding branching and budcount, and others just sort of ambled along and did the minimum. Why? I don't know. They all got the same treatment that was meant as an apology for what they had gone through. For some, it worked. For others, not so much.