I'm really new to all daylilies world, I chose some two years ago here in italy without exactly knowing what to look for, so I chose them for the colors (wish I knew this forum before ordering).
I started to hybridize just for fun: back in june I took an anther from Awakening spirit and rubbed the pollen on two Lighnting Strike flowers. It was around 10 AM, the pistils looked clean with no other pollens on them, and both took ath the first try. Now in this hot july (for us in northern italy but maybe not for DLs) I did the same with Victorian Day on Spanish Glow, and voila, a seed pod.
The only time it failed was with some pollen I had in the fridge, because the cross I wanted to make needed a flower which din't bloomed at the same time. I don't really know why it failed, I suppose the pollen wasn't good even if when I took it out of the fride it seemed ok.
I don't have access to all the variety of Dls you all are mentioning here but I like this thread!
