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May 27, 2023 5:59 AM CST
Name: Maurice
Grey Highlands, Ontario (Zone 5a)
@Diggerofdirt That is logical and fits the biology of most plants. Plants cannot move once their seeds have sprouted in a spot. They cannot move to a location with better resources. Natural selection has given most plants the ability to adapt themselves to the resources available to them in their location. One result is that the same plant will look and act quite differently depending on how/where it is grown. If it has abundant resources it can grow faster, larger, have more scape branches, be taller, have more buds, possibly (or not) have larger flowers, etc.
One side effect of growing in a location with abundant resources is that the plant can increase more quickly. As a clump becomes larger and larger the fans within the clump compete with more and more neighbouring fans for the same resources. As that continues the new fans produced become smaller and all the associated characteristics decline from their previous values.
The end result can be that the more resources the daylily clump is given the more often it has to be divided to keep it at optimum height, flowering, bud counts, etc.
Maurice

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