Natalie said:Michele, why do you cut the scapes off if they haven't bloomed yet? I can't imagine doing that!
If my garden was just a "LOOK AT ME" garden then I would leave them. But since we sell we try and cut all the scapes so the plant will put it's energy into increasing/growing instead of blooming. Last year when all the plants were looking wore out and ragged from blooming and growing seed pods (plus our terrible heat) I went and cut everything that didn't have pods and within a week or so they looked brand new and revived again. In our zone we can get first bloom and usually 2 rebloom cycles on most of the daylilies if we leave them; I remember cutting off scapes last October when I was dividing things because they were sending up more scapes.
If I were going to sell seed this year I would have left the scapes on, but since we are having such a weird bloom season and things are so far behind on blooming I decided not to sell because that would put me wayyyyy behind on our dividing schedule waiting on the pods to ripen, Plus most of my pods are aborting this year and I have just gotten fed up and decided to stop pollinating.
