Development of a daylily seedling
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When a cross is made with something as variable as a daylily, you never know what you are going to get, even when it opens for the first time. Using as an example my new seedling [(Gerda Brooker x Unk) x Whale Tails], the first time it opened I got this:
Kind of a sketchy edge, a bit ragged looking. At least it had a full eye, but prone to canoeing – the curling of the petals.
Then a week later I got this:
A pink/yellow mess that was not an improvement. It could be blamed on the weather, but a few days later there was this:
Another mess. That was in May, and there was little reason to give it more attention. But a lot of daylilies are quick to send up another scape and rebloom. Fortunately for this one, it was quick, and the results were very different.
This was brighter, but not really convincing. I liked the strong vertical lines on the petals and the pattern on the sepals is standard.
Then I went out today and found something good enough to make my Keep List:
Not only an eye and throat combination that looks like a pansy, but a large broken pattern on the sepals. It also looks like something may develop as a white dot on the upper mid rib section of the petal eye.
Not everything that I keep succeeds. There are about 4 I kept from last year that all look the same; so which ever is the tallest, biggest, and best bud count will stay and the others will get dug out in the fall to make room for this one.
18 Jun, 2016
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Great blog Wylie
18 Jun, 2016
Very interesting blog Wylie.
18 Jun, 2016
Thanks. It is such a fantastic flower, I thought it deserved to have its journey so far told.
18 Jun, 2016
Its stunning! Please don't throw out the next to last one though - surely one of your friends would love to have it?
18 Jun, 2016
Thanks - they are all the same flower, so it won't be going anywhere :)
18 Jun, 2016
now I know that I know nothing at all about breeding daylilies but I love them all lol that is amazing how they appear so different. Very interesting! :O)
18 Jun, 2016
that is a beautiful daylily and worth the wait. good job you didn't bin it.
18 Jun, 2016
Each year will they open in the same pattern sequence or fast forward to the last.
18 Jun, 2016
And a Wow from me
18 Jun, 2016
Thanks! They will open, hopefully, like the last photo; unless they develop more. It takes 3-4 years for a daylily to settle in to a permanent pattern, and doubles can be very lazy about becoming doubles. If you get one from somewhere else, it may take a season or two to look like it is supposed to.
18 Jun, 2016
Interesting and informative. Thanks for this blog.
18 Jun, 2016
The ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan.
19 Jun, 2016
I am glad you enjoyed the blog. Part of the excitement of hybridizing is seeing a seedling develop into more than was imagined.
19 Jun, 2016
Hi Wylie
Raining here .... !!!
any chance you can add photos of the parents ? so we can see what they have inherited ?
19 Jun, 2016
Sunny and warm here :)
I posted a photo of Whale Tails today. For the pod parent, either do a search for Gerda Brooker x Unk or go to page 60, row 4 #2 (it's easiest to go to my last page and come forward).
19 Jun, 2016
ooofff to have a nose
Gg
19 Jun, 2016
That is very interesting. Thank you.
19 Jun, 2016
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Well that has certainly grown into a beautiful plant Wylie , gets a Wow!! From me :-))
18 Jun, 2016