Hi, everyone,
From elsewhere (on an FB forum, posted in the last 24 hours):
"Daylily varieties respond differently to BAP. Some respond, some don't. We don't use BAP ourselves but I've seen the results of other hybridizers who use BAP. The reason persons use BAP, is for rapid increase. Many freshly Bapped daylilies take 2 years to grow out. You may even see it break up into multiple minifans if you buy a bapped daylily. I suspect buying an unbapped daylily will increase faster for a person if the buyer wants to Bap or heavily fertilize as the growth nodes have yet to be pushed."
A response on FB to the above post:
"/a/re you referring to BAP 10 (Liquid) or BAP Paste, my experience with BAP Paste is some take to it, most don't but there is no "growing out of it" so to speak. With the BAP 10 all of what you say is correct. I did however find more plants reacted to the spray than the paste.
Further if using the spray, it best to do it on a cool evening after the sun is no longer shining on the plant and DO NOT dip them, if you dip them your plant will die - the roots should not have BAP 10 (liquid) applied.
For those unfamiliar with BAP Paste it is applied to the crown where you have damaged it during digging and dividing. The paste will help to protect the wound from pathogens and at the same time help with increase.
BAP 10 is a FOLIAR spray that can be sprayed on a Daylily while it is growing in the ground. Best time is in the spring before scapes have emerged while the plant is at peak growing phase."
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I'm honestly not trying to confuse the issue. However, I agree with those who've mentioned in the past (privately to me) that there are simply too many daylily forums. (For the life of me, I don't understand why FB quite recently has spawned two, separate forums.) It seems to me that information is not being shared, but rather incomplete experiences are being diffused over multiple forums. A 'little bit of this' & a 'little bit of that' gets divided by the *same* participants on different forums. Who benefits from this? To me it seems that it benefits the commercial interests of individual hybridizers.
As I've mentioned, my only personal concern is having daylilies that are cold morning openers, which are resistant (how-so-ever-this-is-defined) to the scourge of strains of daylily rust in a garden that never gets a rust-killing freeze. For me, other concerns are only of interest to a commercial hybridizer who is seeking a larger market.
Happy gardening, everyone!
E.
