Seedfork said:@mystlw,
Do you know the names of those varieties that you have grown new fans from roots? I find that very interesting being I have always thought a piece of the crown would be necessary. Is it possible a small piece of the crown was still attached?
I don't know what that particular daylily was, as it came from an order before mine. (He and his wife said that a woman earlier had bought a LOT of pretty expensive ones, so that root was likely from a pretty great daylily.) I do remember that last year I grew a fan from a Give Me Eight root.
Here's my problem: it has never worked when I've tried it in Spring. When I try in July or later, it works about half the time. I have no idea why that is. But it doesn't allow my fans to grow large enough to survive an Ohio winter, unless I have a clump that I can plant it with -- and even then I don't know if one of the returning fans is THAT fan.
I have also never tried it without the seaweed/SuperThrive solution that I use on pretty much everything.
