sooby said:FWIW the daylilies I dissected looking for buds that November had had no fertilizer.
However, the daylilies used by Arisumi and Frazier may have been treated relatively normally fore research meaning they would probably have been fertilized. That would be a difference in growing conditions between the daylily you examined and the ones they examined. Perhaps being fertilized may have kept their plants vegetative for longer in the growing season.
They examined 'Crimson Glory' on the 26th of October and classified the plants as vegetative. They next examined the plants on the 22nd of December and classified them as stage 2. Apparently they did not examine them in November so their plants could have become stage 2 at some time during November.
As an aside 'Crimson Glory' was registered as reblooming.
