Got Indian Pumpkin in 2011 and it needs to be divided as it definitely has well over 30 fans in the clump. I've never seen rust on it. Begins blooming around June 21 in my zone 6b garden in southern Indiana and blooms for about 3 weeks.
I would love to know if anyone has successfully used it as a pod or pollen parent. As a pod parent, I tried to set seed on it last year, but each and every pod aborted. Guess that explains why there are no child plants. Not sure how it would do as a pollen parent, but if I think about it this year, I am going to try it. It is listed as a diploid, but I am also going to try crossing a tetraploid with it. Maybe the info on the plant is wrong since there is no parentage listed for it. A search in the AHS database does show that Wild registered 18 tetraploid daylilies before 1983.
Whether by coincidence or not, I could see a huge difference in IP's performance after the boards in our neighbor's fence began falling out. I think the extra hours of sunlight really did it some good.
6/17/2012 - the first year blooming in my garden.
6/21/2018 after 6 years, it hadn't done much - the fence is intact and is on the west side of Indian Pumpkin. This is a bad picture of it because it was 6:30pm, but it shows that it does fade as the day goes on.
7/6/2019 - that is the late-blooming Avalon Amber's Gift to the left of Indian Pumpkin.
6/28/2020 - slats in the fence are slowly working out/getting blown out and Indian Pumpkin is perking up!
6/30/2021 - Beautiful bouquets like this for the last week of June.
As far as bud count and branching, it did better in 2021. Or maybe I just took notice because it bloomed so much better.😉 It has always been a little top branched, but average is about 3-way branching with 15-18 buds. It does have sturdy scapes, a huge plus for me.
I bought Indian Pumpkin because I fell in love with the color of it and still love it to this day.
