Cynthia, I try not to use frozen pollen if I can help it. I use the pollen from fresh blooms if at all posssible. I have a few pollens I kept from last year that I really wasn't sure if it would take this year and the one has been good. The other hasn't set a pod but it may be the pod parent not being ready or it could be the pollen wasn't good when I saved it. Not all pollen is good even if it looks good. It was just a smidgen I got from a late bloom last year so who knows. And not all pollen is compatible with all daylilies ( so I've read). Momma may not like Papa very much and rejects him
Another hint that works sometimes.........
If a daylily just won't set any pods try self pollenating it to get it going. Also, I've been told if it's a TET then dab some DIP pollen (if available) on it to get it in the mood. I have done both and it seemed to work. I have a pod on a TET from DIP pollen. Now, just so you know, this pod will abort.
For the newbies (I was one last year so I really don't know everything). Don't just set one pod of a single pollen on a daylily. Try to make at least 2 or more pods with that pollen because the TET pods will fool you. It will be the biggest pod you have ever seen and you think it must have at least 30 seeds in it. WRONG.....It may only have one seed in it or may have only 4, but then again it could have 10. I did that last year and some of the crosses I really really wanted had 1 or 2 seeds and it was the only pod I set. Dips on the other hand could have a small pod but have 30 seeds in it. They tend to produce more pods and more seeds in those pods.
