beckygardener said:Maurice - Thanks for that detailed explanation!
You're welcome.
Now do the original fans typically die to make new fans or do they remain to re-bloom again that year or the next year?
They do not die but the original growing point is used up in creating the scape so the fan can no longer grow new leaves. When the scape and the leaves finally die then the original fan of leaves no longer exists but the crown remains. The original fans are replaced by one or more new fans of leaves (and by new growing points).
Are old fans replaced with new fans each year as the daylilies multiply?
Old fans are replaced by new fans after each scape is produced, but the crown keeps getting bigger.
Or do they remain and the clump gets bigger and bigger each year?
Old fans do not remain; they are replaced by new fans but sometimes a fan is replaced by two new fans or even more than two fans (and sometimes in some cultivars new fans are created without a scape being produced). That makes the crown and clump become larger with time.
I do a LOT of fertilizing with alfalfa tea, miraclegro, and water! And organic compost. I was thinking that if I continue to "feed" my plants, they might re-bloom for me.
They should; Florida hybridizers have found that nearly all cultivars will rebloom under their growing conditions in their locations and that has been the case since at least the 1940s. However, they do fertilize and water heavily and some divide their clumps every year.
