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tragar - some praise and a question.

mystic_dragon72

15 years ago

I just wanted to let you know just how much I like your seedlings... you seem to have the same taste in patterns/colors that I do so I also have to ask if you plan on introducing any of them? Especially the one's you've posted in the last few posts as they are soooooo beautiful!!

ttfn

Mystic.

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tragar
15 years ago
THanks so much, M.D! I really appreciate your kind words!!

AS far as introductions are concerned, I think I may be close. I'm starting to think that it may be time to release some, now that I have been doing it long enough to have seen a few. THe one real question I still have here is bud count intat my cool weather tends to depress the number of buds I get. I get an occasional plant with 30, but 15-18 seems more typical, and what also happens in the cool weather is that the buds can tend to crowd one another and they don't create quite enough space so that they open freely. I get that on named varieties as well, so think it's also weather related, but do want to make sure if I release something it has decent plant habits!

In any case, I really appreciate your kind words!
farmerbell
15 years ago
Maybe you can do what other hybridizers do and let daylily growers in other parts of the country trial them in different climates. I am in TN and happily volunteer to give some of your seedlings a trial run to see if bud count improves in warmer conditions and see if they melt in 90+ temps :) (...as she says please, please, please pick me!)

You have amazingly beautiful seedlings and I wish you luck with introducing and selling them.

Ann
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opnjmprs
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Well I'm not all that far south, but would be VERYYYYY happy to host plants. You sure have posted some real beauties I think will do very well.

Linda
mystic_dragon72
Original Author
15 years ago
I'm in basically the same zone as Linda but I'd still be very willing to give you space for a trial run to see how they do in this climate!! ;-)) I think you'd get a lot of offers for your seedlings though... so good luck if you do introduce some.. I know I will definitely be keeping an eye out for your's.

ttfn
Mystic.
berrytea4me
15 years ago
Oh, LOL, ....let me get in line. To quote the donkey on the Shrek video..."pick me! pick me!"

I can offer harsh climate testing with CO's persistent drought, alkaline clay soil, and z5 winters w/o snow cover & constant freeze/thaw cycles, plus 100 degree summer days. Any plant that performs here will tolerate the very worst of conditions and be stellar just about anywhere else. Plus I'm an engineer...anal at collecting data (yeah I fit a lot of the other stereotypes too :~o )

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