I thought it would be fun and also quite interesting to create some threads of the children of some of our favorite daylily cultivars that we love to use for breeding. Feel free to start a children thread for one of YOUR favorite cultivars!
I will start with a DRAGONFLY DAWN children thread, which I think many here know is one of my favorite daylilies due to it's lovely blooms. I will say though that it does NOT have 1.0 rust resistance here in the south. But I wouldn't call it susceptible either. The rust rating hovers between 1.5 - 2.5.
Ironically, I do not yet have the actual DD cultivar, but I have bought seeds where DD is a parent as well as some very generous folks here on the forum have shared some of their DD cross seeds with me. And some of them are my own crosses which came from the DD seedlings I grew.
The reason I wanted to start cultivar children threads is to give other breeders a sense of what they "might" get when using the featured cultivar in their hybridizing/breeding program. I feel it is helpful to others to share such information! Some cultivars consistently pass on certain traits!
This first thread will be Dragonfly Dawn:
Below is the cross list:
1 - SSS05 - Dragonfly Dawn x Whale Tails
2 - SSS21 - Dragonfly Dawn x Smoky Eyes
3 - SSS56 - (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) x (Cherry Custard Cheesecake x Palace Garden Beauty)
4 - SSS66 - (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn)
5 - SSS67 - (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) Sibling of #4
6 - SSS68 - (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) Sibling of #4 & #5
7 - SSS72 - (Angels and Ecstasy x unknown) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn)
8 - SSS80 - (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn) x Paper Butterfly (I believe this one died, as I have no trace of it in the garden anymore.)
9 - SSS114 - (Through the Looking Glass x Etched Eyes) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn)
10 - SSS123 - (Bird Talk x unknown) x (Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn)
11 - TTT24 - Stenciled Infusion x Dragonfly Dawn (afternoon bloom)
12 - TTT24 Stenciled Infusion x Dragonfly Dawn (morning bloom, same seedling #11)
13 - ZZZ66 -Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn (Deceased)
14 - ZZZ67 - Dragonfly Dawn x Dragonfly Dawn (Sibling to deceased #13)
15 - ZZZ72 - Laura Mast x Dragonfly Dawn (Deceased)
16 - ZZZ73 - Laura Mast x Dragonfly Dawn (Sibling to #15)
PLEASE consider adding your DD seedlings to this thread! I'd love to see what others have created using DD as the parent to your seedlings!
Feel free to start a children thread for one of YOUR favorite cultivars! Please do not post OTHER cultivars on this thread. Let's keep this particular thread for Dragonfly Dawn children only. Thank you!
I started a second thread for "God Save the Queen" seedlings:
The thread "Children of God Save the Queen" in
Daylilies forum