Ok, as long as I'm not having a unique problem, everything is fine. You know of course that it's always the newest and best that will have a problem like this. I'm thinking that the pods just grew way to fast. I've been amazed at the rate of pod growth I've had this past month. I sware it looks like they are on steroids sometime.
I've had a really good year with plants growing and blooming and with seed setting. Our weather has been as close to perfect as it could be for daylily growth and production. Yes, we need rain, too, but not as bad as most folks. Shirlee, I'm so sorry you are having a bad year. I had the same last year, so I understand and I'm sure most folks would agree, so try not to get too down. Daylilies are very tuff plants and they will survive. Granted they may not flourish like we want in a bad year, what could, but they will be back next year.
My water is the same and I'm sure most community water systems give out such treated water that plants just don't grow as good with bought water as it does with God given water, even though it all starts out from the same sourse. Last year, my tomatos looked terrible. I was watering every other day atleast an inch at a time. The plants were yellow, instead of green. Fertilize didn't help. We finally had a rain come in that lasted a couple of days. I swear, within 3 days, those yellow plants were dark green and happy as rats eating cheese!! So, yes, rain makes a huge difference on plants.
None of this will make your plants better but I hope knowing that we all have these problems will help. It always helps me when I learn it just happens and I'm not doing something to cause my problems like I did last year with my pollen. I left it out too long and was using dead pollen to polinate hundreds of blooms daylily. I finally figured it out at the end of bloom, naturally, after spending the best two weeks(peak time) using dead pollen. I was sick!!!! Lesson learned, and I hope I manage to remember this one!!!
Good luck and I pray that it gets better for you.
Michele, Yeap, I've gone bee hopping crazy. It's like I need to spread pollen to survive
God's taking care of my addiction, most plants have bloomed out for the season. But, I'm also getting more rebloom scapes than I've ever had. I guess all that work last fall of repotting 800 plants into 1500 pots, really is paying off. Sometimes a well laid plan does WORK
I'm going to leave the seeds alone. I just couldn't believe they were ready to pick in 3 weeks. Now, if I can keep those little bitty leaf eating grass hoppers away from them, they might survive.
