tink3472 said:Being in a pot for a month or so wouldn't bother them anyway. A lot of the plants you get that has been ordered ( from warmer climates) have been lined out in pots. Some do have them lined out in the ground and others divide as they are ordered. Just about all the ones we got this spring were in pots and have been so for a while, they get picked up instead of being delivered so they stay in the pot.
I have some potted since I sell them and then I have some of the same ones growing in beds. To me they grow the same except for one thing. If they are really close together, like pot after pot touching each other with no room inbetween whatsoever and there are a lot of them, they tend to grow taller foliage and scapes because they are competing with each other for the sun. This also depends on the size of the pot. If they are say in 5 gallon pots with one daylily, could be a clump, growing in it then then they seem to have plenty of room to grow outward. But if it's one gallon, two gallon, and sometimes 3 gallon pots all crammed close together they grow upward. At least for me they do and I have heard other hybridizers say they the same thing.
Another thing with pots, especially if it's the black nursery pots, They can get really hot from the sun and dry out faster than if planted. If overhead watering and the foliage is really lush the water can just roll off the foliage and never make it to the soil. I have had pots that I thought were getting planty of water and when I dumped them the potting mix (I use pine bark/sand mixture) was bone dry because the root were so dense that the water couldn't make it to the potting mix. What I do now is make sure the pots are either sitting in another pot that's a little bigger than the other pot with some of the potting mix in the bottom or they are sitting in one of the beds that has the pine bark in it.
By doing this the feeder roots grow downward to the moisture in whatever it's sitting in instead of around inside the pot getting rootbound faster. They also tend to get less hot this way. Now this wouldn't be feasable if you have hundreds or thousands of potted plants unless you have a lot of extra pots or have beds built to sit them in and have a lot of whatever soil you use.
Some people that grow them in pots will hand water them to make sure they get enough water.
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