Ashton (or anyone for that matter) - If a particular daylily cultivar is in the family trees of both parents, does it often become a dominate trait? Example: CCC02 pedigree chart above. Etched Eyes is in the family tree of both parents of my seedling. And that is the very cultivar it resembles. If that is true (or even sometimes true) would that possibly work with rust resistance?
I have come across so many daylilies where their pedigree shows both rust resistance and rust susceptibility. I can't figure out how to determine if it would be a good rust resistant parent for hybridizing or not. If I crossed it with a rust resistant daylily with a 1.0 rating, would that likely bring it's children seedlings closer to exhibiting better rust resistance? Or would the rust susceptibility be dominant? I am probably asking questions that there is no definite and clear answer for. I don't have the land to just grow hundreds or thousands of seedlings every year. So you are right, Ashton, that it is easier for YOU to just hybridize to your hearts content and plant all your seeds every year to see what you get. Trial and error in a large playing field is so much easier than limited space. I have plenty of seeds, just not enough land to grow them all on. Rather frustrating.
I guess I just need to buy that winning lotto ticket!
