My avatar is a good photo of Jerry Hyatt. It was the first time I ever saw it bloom, in Curt's seedling field. Curt ended up using my photo in his catalog. It takes it a couple years to settle in, 3 to show good branching.
The Spray/fertilize progam I have done comes from info from John Rice, who is a horticulturalist, not just a daylily grower- and Pat Henley, who used to be my state inspector. She lives just a handful of miles from me. I am lucky to have her so close! I never sprayed or fertilized until I started selling years ago, and Pat would give me advice.
I used to use Orthinex as a spray, but have trouble finding it anymore. I have a few cans of the powdered Maconazeb that I am using up, so I alternate that with Funginex.
I don't sell anymore, I have very few visitors, but I got used to seeing the plants looking better when I used to spray when I had open gardens.
I usually do two different sprays. Miracle Grow - I use the ones for lawns on my daylilies - and Messenger together. I only use the foliar Miracle Grow for two sprays right before bloom... It tends to green up the foliage nicely.... however, I start with the Messenger before scapes are up.
Then I will do the fungicide in a different spray, a few days later.
