I did the same thing the second day, except I didn't use all the pollen from the second day, so I kept it. The second day most pods set. The third day rolled around and I had pollen left over from the first & second day, here's the kicker "I did not put my little pollen filled vials in the fridge or the freezer. I just left it in my tote in the vials. by now, a week had rolled around and I had all this great pollen in the vials so I'm using it, (it was dead by the second day and this is about day 10) I started noticing that I had pods, but not many(from day 1&2 I figured out later). Also, it was 100 degrees in the shade and I'm thinking it's the heat causing my problems. I'm still using the dead pollen with some fresh thrown in ocassionally, so I was getting just one or two groups of pods setting daylily. Again, I thought it was the heat and so did most people I talked to. I hadn't mentioned leaving the pollen out all this time. I finally dug out enough info to realize what I had done by the time most of my daylilies had bloomed out and I only had a select few left. I did get about 800 seeds last year. I made more crosses than this, probably 2000. I was sick. Even with the terrible heat in July, I had a good many pods set on some seedlings that were blooming and on Forestlake Ragamuffin that rebloomed. I used it a lot and I've got a pretty good group of seedlings growing from this cross. « Return to the thread "Pollen-ways to store it"
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