Seedfork said:
"Calculate when peak bloom is in your area and determine how your seedling falls into the bloom sequence." That sounds very exact, but just what does "Calculate" mean and how large is "Your area"?
Have I worded that so it makes any sense?
Really all there is to it is when most of your daylilies are blooming this is peak bloom so if 80% are blooming mid-May that is your peak. Some will have bloomed out already and some will not have bloomed at all (most likely)
If you really want to get exact then you will need to keep track of ALL of your blooms and when they are opened and then figure out when the most are blooming at one given time. Your season begins with the first flower open to whatever cultivar has it's first bloom last. You will want to make sure you do not count the rebloom scapes, only the first scapes.
Here our peak bloom is around mid-May and I believe at Fred's (Spunky1) over in Lillian, AL (zone 9a?)about 30 miles from me is around the same time. Depending on the weather he may be a couple of weeks ahead of us but peak season ends up being about the same time for us.
Weather will play a big roll in all of it sort of like last year, we were about a month or month and a half behind in bloom season because of the winter we had and I can only imagine this year. And just because our peak wasn't until mid to late June last year doesn't mean that is our normal peak bloom season. So IMHO I would keep track of a few years (with normal weather conditions if they still exist
) and then see if it all is about the same.
