Starting...things.
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I'm starting to soak my daylily seeds. I wonder if I'm jumping the gun. I know the weather is going to cool down to near average, but since I'm going to pot-grow my daylilies, I can just stow them in the foyer overnight if it gets too cold. I want them to get a head start. I'm dying to see if I get flowers this year!
I suppose my daylily babies will bloom looking similar to daylilies you can already find on the market, but I'm not planning on registering them, anyway. ^^;;;; I just didn't have a wide gene pool to choose from. Almost all of my crosses are diploids, and I know that everybody and their dog has used Gentle Shepherd for hybridizing, but as long as it's pretty, I guess it doesn't matter, does it?
So basically, I have:
Siloam Virginia Henson X Entrapment from 3 different seedpods. One produced 17 seeds!
Siloam Virginia Henson X Gentle Shepherd from 2 different seedpods
Gentle Shepherd x Entrapment
Daring Deception x Cedar Waxwing
I had also done Siloam Virginia Henson x Little Heavenly Angel, but some villain ate all my seedpods before I could harvest them! I tried germinating some of the seeds in the fall, to see if they were viable...to my surprise, the only Daring Deception x Cedar Waxwing I tried(as I only had 5 seeds) germinated three months after I sowed it! I had given it up for lost!
I also have some rose seeds, collected in the early winter. I don't know who the father is. ^^;;;; I had ordered a band of the Griffith Buck rose Simon Estes from Northland Rosarium, and it arrived with one flower bud and a big fat hip on it! I was determined to leave it for the birds, but nobody wanted it, and when it got all red and crinkly I couldn't resist plucking it, cleaning up the seeds, and sticking them in the fridge. Even though I don't know who the father is, ha ha! I mean...Simon Estes is a good rose, right? It did really well last year, even though I planted it late. And Northland Rosarium doesn't sell roses that aren't hardy in their climate of Zone 5...so if I can get the seeds to germinate, I may wind up with something worthy, right?
Maybe!
I suppose my daylily babies will bloom looking similar to daylilies you can already find on the market, but I'm not planning on registering them, anyway. ^^;;;; I just didn't have a wide gene pool to choose from. Almost all of my crosses are diploids, and I know that everybody and their dog has used Gentle Shepherd for hybridizing, but as long as it's pretty, I guess it doesn't matter, does it?
So basically, I have:
Siloam Virginia Henson X Entrapment from 3 different seedpods. One produced 17 seeds!
Siloam Virginia Henson X Gentle Shepherd from 2 different seedpods
Gentle Shepherd x Entrapment
Daring Deception x Cedar Waxwing
I had also done Siloam Virginia Henson x Little Heavenly Angel, but some villain ate all my seedpods before I could harvest them! I tried germinating some of the seeds in the fall, to see if they were viable...to my surprise, the only Daring Deception x Cedar Waxwing I tried(as I only had 5 seeds) germinated three months after I sowed it! I had given it up for lost!
I also have some rose seeds, collected in the early winter. I don't know who the father is. ^^;;;; I had ordered a band of the Griffith Buck rose Simon Estes from Northland Rosarium, and it arrived with one flower bud and a big fat hip on it! I was determined to leave it for the birds, but nobody wanted it, and when it got all red and crinkly I couldn't resist plucking it, cleaning up the seeds, and sticking them in the fridge. Even though I don't know who the father is, ha ha! I mean...Simon Estes is a good rose, right? It did really well last year, even though I planted it late. And Northland Rosarium doesn't sell roses that aren't hardy in their climate of Zone 5...so if I can get the seeds to germinate, I may wind up with something worthy, right?
Maybe!
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Date: 2012-03-23 01:40 pm (UTC)I think I've read that diploids can be a bit more pesky to start then the tets...all my babies are tets.
I'm hoping for blooms from my babies this year but won't hold my breath. All came back as single fans so I'd not be surprised if they want to grow and divide themselves before sending up a scape...now if I could just find my diagram of what was planted where...
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Date: 2012-03-23 01:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-05 11:52 pm (UTC)It was so hot when my daylilies were in bloom last year(over 90 degrees) that I wonder if that's why I had problems getting viable tetraploid seeds? I heard diploids are less picky about temperature. I'll probably do mainly tetraploid crosses this year, even though everybody and their dog has used Ed Brown already. ^^;;;;