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Jan 17, 2013 7:04 PM CST
Name: Elizabete Rutens
(Zone 10b)
Char, kudos to you for registering a seedling that you won’t introduce, so that the parentage is available for its future progeny! This is such crucial information when trying to guess the potential vigor of the plant, its disease resistance or susceptibility, etc. There are a number of hybridizers that believe inbreeding is one of the key reasons that contemporary daylilies have fertility issues and other problems. I’ve frequently wondered whether an unknown seedling parent is the unregistered result of either a sib or back cross, which would be excellent information to have, in order to avoid choosing a daylily from another hybridizer with that same parentage.

Thanks again! - Elizabete

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