Just putting a note back here which got inadvertently moved when a new subject was posted.
I think it wise, if you are looking for the gene pool only, not to spend the big bucks of a named daylily but buying its sib cheap.
But that is not the point I was trying to make initially.
It is selling those $200 - $1500 seedlings without registering them. I just don't get it. If it is worth that kind of money, shouldn't it be a registered daylily?
Registering a plant has nothing to do with the hybridizer keeping the plant for his own program, in my mind. Is it not living up to his standards? I don't know... but when seedlings bring more than registered daylilies, I just don't get it!
I purchased a nice tall dark pink UF that i am using to breed with. I asked about why it was not considered worthy for registering, and the answer was that it was not branched enough for his taste. I love it as a garden plant and have set seed on it last year and this.
Two stories:
Fooled Me was let out of Reilly's garden as a seedling, since it wasn't in his breeding choices (he liked pinks and pastels), and it didn't have great bud count at the time. Well, it was registered later by someone else, then re ID'd as a Reilly seedling and that is how it got its name. When in clump form, it did have the good stats, AND IT WON A WRITE IN up to the STOUT MEDAL!
John Lambert would register and sell out of his stock of a cultivar when he had as low a division as 7 (I think). He wanted the good ones named and out of his garden, so he would have room for more!
