This will mark my first year harvesting seedpods and I want to make sure I do it right! I read that seedpods take about 6 weeks to develop and I pollinated my first daylily on 7/1/15, so it's just about that time.
My understanding is that I'm supposed to wait until the pods start to turn brown and open, but what happens when it isn't brown and starts to open? (I had this happen to one of my earlier seedpods and it dropped all of the white seeds that were inside, and here it is happening again):
Will white seeds be fertile, or do they need to turn brown-black in the pod first in order to be viable? What is causing a couple of my seed pods to open early, do they need more water? Is this pod salvageable or are they goners, now? Should I cut the pod off of the plant and stick it in water indoors, would that help?
On a different note...
I was so surprised to find a 4-section seedpod today that I went on a mission through my different daylily beds and happened to find a second one.
I don't know how many seedpods I have going right now, but it's probably somewhere in the area of 100, which means 2% of my seedpods are 4-section. Have any of you noticed about what percent of your seedpods have an extra section? Does this generally mean more seeds? Most seed auctions on the LA are for 6 seeds...does that mean there are usually 2 seeds per section and that these two pods might have 8 seeds?
Also, from looking at the picture-before-last, you can see that the seedpod has a red-purple color on the top--is that my key that the plant is either drying out, lacking nutrients, or that the seedpod is nearly ready for harvest? Or is that just a natural coloration for seedpods of some cultivars?
