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SueVT said: Right, I read this article last winter, when I was getting interested in Heavenly New Frontiers. I ended up buying lots of seed crosses with HNF, most will be blooming this coming year.

Are you making conversions yourself? I suppose, if you had a new conversion, you could trying crossing with known other ploidies, to determine its ploidy, rather than getting it tested. But that wouldn't identify Pentaploid I presume?

I'm with you a 100%. Instead of buying the actual conversion, why not get a child of a conversion. You get the bloodline. Example: I was going to buy Tet RFK. Guy Pierce told me that the children coming out of that plant currently seem to have high rust resistance. Yahoo! Jackpot! But what if I bought it off lily auction for $80 and that fan I got was a different ploidy? I spoke with a breeder today who told me they tried creating conversions. She said the results were so inconsistent they gave up. Think I will waste my time, I mean constructively spend my time, just hunting down known rust resistant daylilies and breed them. The reason for the call to that breeder today was I found three old ones on her site, rated 1 for rust-resistance.

We spend so much on daylilies to have a ploidy tested by Gossard for $25 seems cheap.

But nothing is guaranteed. I pulled two which are highly rated for rust resistance daylilies that got reasonably heavy rust this year.

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