Dailily Crossing and Ploidy
davemichigan
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Daylily Crossing and Ploidy
Comments (2)You know Dave, I'm sure someone could have eventually answered you! There are all kinds here in the junk yard. :^)...See MorePloidy and Fertility
Comments (11)Jodi, thanks for all the good information. Like you, with spring here and everything needing to be done yesterday (or else), I just don't have the time to get too involved right now. What I'm doing is bookmarking things to get back to at some future date -- perhaps the lazy, hazy, hot days of summer when it's just too awful to be outside. You're definitely right on with the dictionary in one hand thing. My big thing would be to be able to grow seed on doubles, but remembering ARIF's statement that his doubles grow on singles (and he sure does have absolutely gorgeous doubles), think that would be impossible. I absolutely LOVE the doubles. However, there is a huge seed pod growing on a DOUBLE that was given the name of Rozetta on this forum (perhaps that was you?). Now how did this happen???? I'm not intending to start a big thread with this post, but thought what I had found had some useful information to those of us who are more "ploidy" challenged. Whatever they are, I sure have a bunch of pods growing on some beautiful bulbs and hoping they all make it, not that I have space to grow many seeds. I just counted -- was actually possible to count at last -- and do have at this point 67 pots of hippis. Also, many of these pots contain at least two bulbs, and some like Carina have a dozen! Others have up to ten bulbs which could be all the same or mixed. At some point many of these will require moving to separate pots or possibly in the least shared with fewer bulbs. Realizing that there are a couple hundred houseplants out in the back yard now that will eventually need to come back inside along about the end of October, including about a hundred or so orchids, where in the world are they going to go???? BTW, Amputo has awakened with two very nice large scapes about to bloom. Pink Floyd is also growing at least one scape. I'm so excited about both of them. And I see that Jewel (nice fragrance) and Exotic Star are sending up their third scapes. Double Dragon is also sending up another scape (the first one was a dud). Piquant just opened yesterday. It's huge and its color is a flourescent reddish orange -- fabulous. Need to cross that one with something. Guess I'll be giving away lots and lots of seed....See MoreMy Clivia x Hippeastrum cross still seems to be doing well.
Comments (8)Hi Jon! I try to keep the pollens intact until the "official" pictures are taken. The straws are taken out for the picture and then placed right back after the photo session. All pollens are collected afterwards for storage and future use. Here it is... Chubbs Peach with slight green throat from South Africa And with the Clivia Color Chart See the big difference in color using the right set-up for proper documentation. This Chubbs Peach opens yellowish and develops the peachy color later on....See Morecrossing the ploidy boundary
Comments (1)The first cross I made (1987) was with wild fulva that I had dug along a country road on an unknown dip that I bought at the farmers market. Many older varieties have fulva genes, Stouts book on daylilies lists a lot of them. I still have the three or for seedlings I grew from that cross and every once in a while I try again and I have a fertile copy of fulva that is the same color and shape but a bit smaller----but it spreads like it's poppa and has formed a pretty large clump. I think these are dips and I've sort of lost interest in them, I suppose because it's so difficult to make all those crosses for so few seeds. There are a few people who apparently have used tets on fulva and one Ed Murray on fulva that is supposed to cross with either tets or dips. I've sort of tryed other stuff as I thought I would like some early reds or early eyed daylilies. And I have a clump of Ed Murray that I crossed with Saxton's Orchid Corsage. I am hoping these will bloom this summer, but they are still single seedling fans so I may have to wait another year. I have about twenty seeds from Saratoga Pinwheel X Ed Murray that have been very difficult to germinate; I think these should be tets if I ever get the blasted things to grow. They have been in the refridgerater for five weeks and I'm trying to make up my mind when to get them out and where to put them. The first five seeds of this cross died except one that germinated and then died. Why do I keep this up????-----Weedy...See Moreleslieinri
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