Leslie mentions in one of her most recent posts that I disagree with her regarding crossing non-polys with polys. Here is a reprint of my comments that she is referencing:
"... if the seedling is not showing polymerous blooms in the first season that it blooms then I discard immediately. That might be the difference between hybridizing for polymerous daylilies and hybridizing for plants that we hope/want to be polymerous daylilies. Likewise, I feel there are plenty of plants available now that we don’t have to worry about crossing polys on to non-polys and then bringing them back to the parents for 2 or 3 generations. I kinda had those thoughts 20 years ago but now that I am 50, I don’t have that time to waste anymore. Been there, done that. I also don’t believe in using a non-poly seedling from two poly parents as a bridge plant. Again, because we now have an established base of reliable polys to breed from with enough gene diversity.
Doing the F2 hybridizing and bringing the kids back and forth with the parents can be a good method but I feel you have to use the best of the kids and not the want-a-be kids. I mention this in my descriptive information for H. ‘Fractured Symmetry’ (
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...) and how I plan to cross it back to H. ‘In Celebration Of Life’ (
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...) and vice-versa next season. This year I worked H. ‘Fractured Symmetry’ with H. ‘Carolina Octopus’ (
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...) and H. ‘Redefining Genetics’ (
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...
FRACTURED SYMMETRY
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...
IN CELEBRATION OF LIFE
http://daylily.net/nc_introduc...
