Same here, Gale. I was not successful setting a pod on a split pistil.

beckygardener said:

BTW - I have been wondering how old Ashton is? He seems very mature so I am thinking he is older than Jon (Dave's son) who is in his middle teens. I think that is so cool that these 2 young men are very serious about daylily hybridizing. If they stick with it, I think we will be hearing a LOT about any registered daylilies they create. I just know it! :

Becky,
I am 15, we sent in our first daylily registration application yesterday!
I am definetly going to stick with it!

and we need young people getting involved. Good Luck with your future seedlings!

Ashton - Congratulations on your very first registration!!! When it has been approved, I hope that you will share a photo and the name of your very first intro!!! I want to see it. Way to go!

So you have been growing and hybridizing daylilies since you were 9??? If so, that is 6 years! (Longer than I've been in it!) I guess I will need to start directing some of my hybridizing questions your way.

Honestly, I thought you were like 17 going on 18. You fooled me! So you and Jon are actually about the same age. I think you two will become good online (and in real life) friends and become "friendly" daylily hybridizer rivals! A little competition can be a real motivator and will keep you both laughing with the joking going on back and forth!

Now .... I expect to hear that Jon has an intro in the works! (Though he just got into daylilies a year ago so he may need a year or two to get there.)

Ok, now I am going to get on the topic of hybridizing questions again....

I have been reading about many professional hybridizers who are well-known for their intros. I am not going to mention names, but I was really bummed out that one in particular is using rusty daylily seedlings as his signature daylily parents for many of his intros. He would definitely have rust because he is in a warmer state, but he sprays for rust as do most of the pro hybridizers. I am sure he knows it too. I am sorry, but that was disappointing for me personally, because I saw many of his intros I would love to have, but when I checked their pedigree I realized that they very well might be rust buckets in my garden. How hard can it be to incorporate rust resistance in your breeding program? I bet the majority of daylily home gardeners do not spray regularly for rust or other diseases ... so they live with the ugly foliage like I have been doing. Daylilies only bloom for a short time compared to the rest of the year, so for me - it really is an asset to have nice foliage during the rest of the year.

I do know that most of the hybridizers here in FL are trying to add rust resistance to their breeding lines. And I think the majority have had much success with that.

How hard can it be to add rust resistance to your breeding program if you live in the south? If they own acreage, can't they designate an area away from their sales stock to try to hybridize some more good parents that show rust resistance?

Well, I am no hybridizer so this may not make any sense. But I think that just because the parents show rust that does not mean the children will show rust. If he uses two rusty parents and gets three thousand seedlings, then picks the ones that don't show rust and they have other outstanding qualities, I can see that. Most buying are not going to be hybridizers so the rust would not be a factor for them. I think the culling process could be the answer.
Does that sound right?

You could be right, Larry. But I don't see anywhere on his website that his intros show rust resistance. I won't spend the money to find out either.

I did just purchase a handful of rust resistant 1.0 rating registered daylilies from a nursery going out of business. (Got the daylilies for dirt cheap.) I don't know how they will do as parents (though I did check and most have a nice long line of named children). I am getting VERY serious about hybridizing rust resistance into my own seedlings. That is becoming my #1 priority. If I am going to spend the time and energy to try to create some worth registering and gifting to family and friends, I want them to show rust resistance as one of their qualities.

jon said:So far, my favorite parent is Boundless Beauty. It has produced many poly blooms in one of its seedlings that I have.

I have Boundless Beauty too and I love it, but it is not setting pods for me. Do you pollenate in the AM or PM? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Theresa - In my own hybridizing efforts here in the heat of FL, I have found that am is the best time to hand-pollinate the blooms. Hopefully Jon will post a reply to your question since he is having success with Boundless Beauty.

tgarden711 said:

I have Boundless Beauty too and I love it, but it is not setting pods for me. Do you pollenate in the AM or PM? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Due to Jons success with it and the generosity of a member here, I am adding Boundless Beauty, it will be coming next month. I am looking at all the plants people have been listing on this thread, and will be adding some.

Thanks again everyone,
Gale

@jon - Did the Boundless Beauty seedling(s) come from the seeds I sent you? (Which I actually got those from Mike and shared a few with Jon.) My two Boundless Beauty seedlings have yet to produce a scape and bloom. You are certainly doing something right to get yours to bloom this year!

I was just out in the garden, and was very surprised to see that Entrapment was covered in bee pods! I normally break those off, but I think I'll let them continue this year. I've had very bad luck at getting pods to maturity this year, thanks to the 3 weeks in a row of 100 plus degree heat. Lots of pods got started, but once that heat hit, they died. I have no idea if Entrapment is a good parent or not, but it seems to be a very easy pod parent! Looks like I might have to plant a few of those seeds and see what I get, if none of the other pods makes it to maturity.

Sounds like a tough pod parent daylily to me!!!

I just checked, and it has no registered kids, so I'm not expecting much from the seeds. However, I need to make a really ugly seedling to register, so maybe I'll get lucky!

What will you do if the seedlings turn out to be beautiful?

Depends on the seedling! I need some pretty ones too, to name after family members, but I really need an ugly one! When I was growing up, my Dad and I had a contest every year at Easter, to see who could dye the ugliest Easter egg. I want to name one in honor of that, because my Dad would laugh his head off over it! We still laugh about that all the time!

Well, I see your plan!!! I hope you get a VERY UGLY seedling!!!! Maybe it will start out like the ugly duckling and get more beautiful with age?!!!

I hope not!

beckygardener said:@jon - Did the Boundless Beauty seedling(s) come from the seeds I sent you? (Which I actually got those from Mike and shared a few with Jon.) My two Boundless Beauty seedlings have yet to produce a scape and bloom. You are certainly doing something right to get yours to bloom this year!

Yes, I did get the seeds from you. I got two of the to germinate (I forgot how many you sent), and both of them bloomed last spring. One of them produced lots of polymerous blooms like I mentioned earlier, and I loved them both. I forgot to look at how many buds they had, but if it has good bud count, then I might introduce it if it is just as nice in a few years.

My daughter who is 13 has been in the garden polinating and .....her favorite Daylily to put pollen on is Beautiful Edgings... I am wondering what we should use as the pollen plant with this one? A tet or dip? I have given her numbered tags so she can remember what she is using as a pollen parent -- hope to plant seeds gathered this fall next spring and see what she gets!
Any ideas are appreciated!