Ah, thanks for clarifying! In some ways my experience differs quite greatly from Maurice's, and from other very experienced and often-cited daylily folks. For example, I posted in January about having discovered my fans of Dixie Land Band were tet rather than dip as would be expected from its registration. At the time, Maurice thought it could not have been a tet conversion (
http://garden.org/thread/view_...). But, after I mentioned it again in this Oddities thread, and he pondered its lineage further (
http://garden.org/thread/view_...) he now notes that it might be a tet (
http://garden.org/thread/view_...), just as I'd mentioned back in January after tons of seeds came from crossing it with tets. And so the cycle of looking at things in new ways, researching, and sharing experiences and thoughts that everyone partakes in and contributes to, continues.
As for the oddities, and my pictures of both Pitter Patter and its new offspring Spots and Stripes, I am drawn by the long decades (1972 to 2014, forty-two years!) between the time PP was registered, and the time it took for a hybridizer to step outside the box and give some genetically-relevant dabbing a try on it. In one generation it passed on genetics that, according to common wisdom and experts alike, was not ever before to be expected. For that reason, I've got Pitter to join Dixie in my garden as core inspirations. Dixie reminds me each day to trust those instincts that lead us all to "just try it" when something is unusual, yet to be documented, seemingly impossible, or even just "new." And Pitter .... Pitter now reminds me not to wait so dang *long* to just try it!
