DogsNDaylilies said:From what you've said, though, I'm not as optimistic about it setting pods next year.
I did a quick analysis of the registered diploid offspring from 'Give Me Eight'. The total was 26. Of those two were registered as self-pollinations; four were registered with 'Give Me Eight' as the pod parent and various other pollen parents and 20 were registered with 'Give Me Eight' as the pollen parent with various other pod parents (one of those had 'Give Me Eight' as the pollen parent one generation before).
The two self-pollinations were registered by 'Give Me Eight's hybridizer but because most daylily pollinations are not done using safe techniques (natural pollinations can occur) and because most diploid daylilies are self-incompatible I am not very confident that 'Give Me Eight' pollen was successful but nevertheless the pod parent should have been 'Give Me Eight'.
In the other four registrations, although 'Give Me Eight' was listed as the first parent in the cross and therefore should be the pod parent, many registrations are done with the pollen parent listed first so I do not have much confidence that 'Give Me Eight' is pod fertile enough for me to try using it as a pod parent in the future. Nevertheless it was probably successfully used as a pod parent by its hybridizer and so should produce a few seeds if one perseveres.
