Gleni said:I just won an interesting booklet on eBay. "Growing daylilies in Queensland" M. Chantrill 2001.
"When blooming is finished, the foliage may be cut back to a height of 20cm This is believed to stimulate the production of new fans." What you think?
I have seen no evidence of this. We cut ours back every year at the end of season to either move them or the ones that aren't getting moved to help so we can replenish the fertilizer, alfalfa, and whatever else around the clumps and I have not noticed any increase in fans by doing so. It may just be that the daylily is no longer putting it's energy into blooming and can then put it's energy into increasing. What we do at the end of our hybridizing season is cut the scapes off so they will no longer bloom and put energy into blooming (that don't have pods) and this will help the plant increase in fans. Stamile is the one that told James Hall about doing this and said that is what he did.
