That is so interesting Fred! Thanks for the comparison pictures.
So do you do your own conversions? Or do you place orders for tet conversions with someone else?
Having read that the mortality rate is extremely high....just wondering how many plants get treated in order to obtain that one conversion? And then, does one have to wait until the bloom to be able to tell if the conversion was successful?? Oh my...
The amount of energy and dedication it takes to convert a daylily without "converting" yourself is as fascinating as the genetics to me. (Colchicine is "effective" on both animal and plant species?!..
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I had the best time reading Sydney Eddison's book...
A Passion for Daylilies, The Flowers and the People...
Tells all about the early hybridizers and the Fay/Griesbach team that did the first conversions....and created a huge scandal proclaiming that it would be the end of Diploid daylilies....the Tetraploid and Diploid camps were divided at the 1961 convention....(fascinating read).
But then you guys probably already knew that! I think you hybridizers are as fascinating as your flowers are beautiful.
