Rebecca
04-08-2003, 03:00 PM
Okay, so what I really want to know is how many daylily addicts[U] are here?
You don't have to grow hundreds of different cultivars to be an addict! I have a small yard and yet manage to grow a good number of different cultivars and do a little hybridizing too!
Most of my collection is pre-1995 introductions but I did manage to get one that was just introduced this year. It is "ESP" by John Shooter of Marietta Gardens inGeorgia. Beautiful near white out of Gentle Shepherd breeding lines.
I have somewhere between 100 and 200 new seedlings this spring. Some have already been planted in the seedling bed, but others are still waiting or just now coming up in flats I am starting under lights.
Starting and growing the seedlins under lights has been a new experience for me this year as I usually wait until the weather has warmed enough that they can be planted in flats and grwon outside. 50 tp 75 of this years seedlings are from seeds sent to me by other growers and backyard hybridizers. These are crosses from plants I'd not soon be able to buy myself and perhaps not from crosses I would have made had I owned the parents, but they will be a great genetic sourse for characteristis I hope to combine in my own breeding programs. The hardest part is waiting the two years it takes for thses seedings to bloom for the first time!
I will have 30 or so of my own crosses and open pollenated crosses bloom their first time this season and I am getting very impatient for warm weather to settle in and the plants to form scapes! Most of these crosses were basically experiments to see if I could do it and to see what would come out of such parings or selfings. I've gained so much knowledge in the past couple of years that most of these two year old seedlings probably won't be developed any further. Each year I become a little more focused on what I want to achieve or develope in a line of breeding.
I know I want to work towards developing truw whites and I have seven rare Kwanso cross seedlings that after establishing that particular gene pool, I can work towards truly double flowered Spider Varients with long, narrow cascading petals that remind one of a fireworks display.
I'd really like to hear from other daylily addicts!
Rebecca
You don't have to grow hundreds of different cultivars to be an addict! I have a small yard and yet manage to grow a good number of different cultivars and do a little hybridizing too!
Most of my collection is pre-1995 introductions but I did manage to get one that was just introduced this year. It is "ESP" by John Shooter of Marietta Gardens inGeorgia. Beautiful near white out of Gentle Shepherd breeding lines.
I have somewhere between 100 and 200 new seedlings this spring. Some have already been planted in the seedling bed, but others are still waiting or just now coming up in flats I am starting under lights.
Starting and growing the seedlins under lights has been a new experience for me this year as I usually wait until the weather has warmed enough that they can be planted in flats and grwon outside. 50 tp 75 of this years seedlings are from seeds sent to me by other growers and backyard hybridizers. These are crosses from plants I'd not soon be able to buy myself and perhaps not from crosses I would have made had I owned the parents, but they will be a great genetic sourse for characteristis I hope to combine in my own breeding programs. The hardest part is waiting the two years it takes for thses seedings to bloom for the first time!
I will have 30 or so of my own crosses and open pollenated crosses bloom their first time this season and I am getting very impatient for warm weather to settle in and the plants to form scapes! Most of these crosses were basically experiments to see if I could do it and to see what would come out of such parings or selfings. I've gained so much knowledge in the past couple of years that most of these two year old seedlings probably won't be developed any further. Each year I become a little more focused on what I want to achieve or develope in a line of breeding.
I know I want to work towards developing truw whites and I have seven rare Kwanso cross seedlings that after establishing that particular gene pool, I can work towards truly double flowered Spider Varients with long, narrow cascading petals that remind one of a fireworks display.
I'd really like to hear from other daylily addicts!
Rebecca