Susan, James Hall is a hybridizer, he has the daylilies that start with BUDDY'S (ex: BUDDY'S RED HEAD or BUDDY'S DROOPY).
After I had to move and really had no place to move the daylilies to other than leave them at ex-fiances (which was getting to stressful) he asked if I wanted to plant them at his place since he has plenty of room and of course I jumped on it. In exchange for giving me a place for my daylilies and supplying pretty much all the wood for the beds, all the mulch (all mine I brought filled the beds), fertilizer, chicken litter, other chemicals, and anything else needed, I (and my best friend Kim) help him with his daylily chores such as LOTS OF WEEDING and then MORE WEEDING, dividing and potting up, during shipping we pull orders and wash them for him to ship, MORE WEEDING, I do all the chemical spraying every 2 weeks, building beds, digging trenches (by hand) for the sprinkler system and then laying the pipe for the sprinklers, did I mention WEEDING, and anything else that needs to be done, and then I mow the back half of the property. During hybridizing season I'll go behind his pollinating and tag the crosses and sometimes if he has other things to do I'll actually do all the pollinating. His is pretty easy, he uses one pollen on everything pretty much each day such as one pollen for the toothy ones and one pollen for the patterns, etc.
And we get fed everyday. We had to tell his wife to quit making soooo much food and dessert everyday, that we are fine with eating sandwiches. We started putting on weight with all the food she was making.
One loads their plant with pods by pollinating them and making seed pods.
