In one of the Daylily Addict videos (really good DVDs, check them out at TheDaylilyAddict website) shows Steve Zolock showing how to inject a Colchisine (the old gout medicine, misspelled here) solution into the crown of a daylily to convert it to a tet. Trimmer, Don Eller, Grace, Waldrop, et. al. use the method shown in Tink's post. They cut the potted plant after withholding water for many days, add Colchicine (see, I can misspell it at least two ways) to the growing tip over a period of a few days, and HOPE it is converted. I'd guess that Gossard does the same. Some of the plants die for various reasons, so don't practice on your only fans of favorite cultivars. Even the experienced expect a certain amount to not survive. Zolock is the only person I've seen that treats a daylily growing in the garden. NORMALLY, converted flowers have stronger scapes. Some are not pod fertile.
David
