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Jun 29, 2014 7:15 PM CST
Name: Maurice
Grey Highlands, Ontario (Zone 5a)
Rebloom should mean a fan that produces one scape and then later produces another scape during the same year. That is slightly tricky to determine sometimes because after a fan has started to make a scape that part (growing point or the shoot apical meristem) can no longer make any new leaves. Then a bud in between the leaf and the crown usually starts to develop to produce the next set of leaves - it becomes the replacement fan. Sometimes buds on both sides of the scape start to develop more or less at the same time and there are two replacement fans for the original fan. Rebloom should mean when one or more of those two replacement fans produces a scape in the same year or growing season as the original fan produced its own scape.

Rebloom in daylilies should be a little like flowering in tomato plants. Frist the fan grows leaves until it becomes larger enough or adult or mature. then it produces a scape and a replacement set of leaves or fan develops beside the scape and produces a set of leaves. When that set of leaves (or fan) becomes mature it produces a scape and the process repeats. A tomato plant does more or less the same thing. It produces eight or more leaves and then a truss of flowers and then it grows several more new leaves and it then produces another truss of flowers and then it grows a few more leaves and another truss of flowers and so on. A tomato plant does it much quicker than most daylilies.
Maurice

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