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'Boys Night Out' is a semi-evergreen introduced in 2015 by Davisson-J..

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Boys Night Out') .

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Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Boys Night Out')

I just received this in the spring, so am not able to say much about it. It did grow well, has added at least a new fan. It bloomed well, short but to be expected, but the blooms looked good. It even rebloomed, so I am pleased at how well it is starting out.

One look at my picture above should tell you all you need to know. Tall, tons of buds, very pod fertile, great color…..a must have!

Steve

I need to check to see if it was Boy's Night Out that last year showed itself to be one of those incredibly fertile pollen parents that put scapes in the mood for setting pods. (That first bloom on the scape is easier to set on, but if one picks a poor pollen parent the first time and the cross is unsuccessful, it can make it much harder to set subsequent crosses on that scape). It was either this DL or No Boys Allowed that was super-fertile. I'll look at my seed stash and report back. Nice branching, pleasing color. I have some potted DLs in afternoon shade to facilitate hybridizing and BNO hasn't been happy with this arrangement. Others have done very well but I haven't seen scapes on BNO this year. I'm sure it will be happier in the ground with more sun in the future.

@Hembrain

Hembrain said: (That first bloom on the scape is easier to set on, but if one picks a poor pollen parent the first time and the cross is unsuccessful, it can make it much harder to set subsequent crosses on that scape)

How was it determined that the rejection of the first bloom has anything to do with the plant being hard to set pods on subsequently, and that the plant was not just a hard plant to set pods on regardless of first bloom rejecting a poor pollen parent?

Sorry for delay, Larry. Very busy lately. I noticed the importance of using reliably fertile pollen on the first bloom on a scape by observing how pod-setting behavior progresses with my generally fertile pod parents. I don't remember where I first heard mention of this phenomenon. Maybe Oscie Whatley's writing? There was a reference to the idea that it's fruitful to get the scape "in the mood" for podding by pollinating the first blooms, even if that is just a selfed or throwaway cross. (Also, I see that the base of the first blooms is sometimes a bit thicker and looks like it wants to set a pod.) In my garden this happens even with mid and later-season bloomers, when it's hotter. It's not just that the first bloom opened before the summer became inferno-like. Maybe sometimes the scape just isn't in the mood, but I have seen a trend that once a pod is set, the scape seems invested in supporting it (and subsequent pods) and the opposite seems true. Scapes give up easily.

But whose pollen do you use to pollinate this cross? DL pollen is not equally fertile. Certain DL pollen will set a pod on just about anything. Velvet Throne is an example that has been discussed before. It's good to keep track of these easy pollen parents, given that the stakes are high.

Here's Diviner's Handbook last year. Was very much in the mood for procreation! And you can see Boy's Night Out on at least one of the tags.

That is interesting, I would never be observant enough to notice something like that nor focused enough to follow it along far enough to confirm it.