Not all new daylilies are Tets., several people are working with both tets and dips. If the daylily you purchased is registered and you know the name you can google it as follows. Say the name of your new plant is ABC, google ABC daylily and you should get several hits. Open them and you will find a complete description of the plant. You can also search the plant on the following website and find the same information. If you do not know the name of your plant the easiest way to determine if it is a dip or a tet is to breed it to known dips and tets. The dip or tet that produces a seed pod will be the correct one. Hope this is helpful. http://db.tinkersgardens.com/

Thanks everyone, glad you liked the show. Really enjoy reading all your comments, and I know Zeke will be all puffed up to know that people think he is such a handsome fellow--LOL. Celeste, my Golliwog came from the Lily Auction. I believe it cost $6.50 for a five fan clump--what a deal, and it's been a great one to me. AHS lists the height at 25", so I expect in time the scapes will grow that tall, and it will look different than now. Even so, the flower size is listed at 8.25" and that is a big flower. Oh, Golliwog came from a grower in Wisconsin, so it should work in your climate. About Custard Candy--this daylily was a mistake--had ordered something else, but received CC instead. It's been here about 3 years now, and I was ready to toss it, didn't really care for it that much until this year, guess it's grown on me, and it can stay. It is a Stout Medal winner, I believe for 1999.

Wow Fairysoapgirl for that price who cares who the hybridizer is? Ya'll just make me drool everytime you post your pictures. Pink is my very favorite color but with these daylilies a favorite is very hard to choose. I have finally been adopted and someone is going to share some of their lovely babies with me.Yipppppeeeeee! Maybe next year someone will be drooling over the daylilies I have and then I can adopt a couple of people too. That's what I love about irises and daylilies. If you like them you go way overboard in getting everyone of them you can put your hands on. A local chapter of the American Iris Society is having a Iris and Daylily sale the first week in October. Can anyone tell me what the usual prices are at these things? What would you normally expect to have to pay for a daylily at one of these sales? Someone told me before that sometimes these sales are crazy and if you don't get there early everything will be GONE. This will be my very first sale to attend. Do I need to take a baseball bat with me for protection? Fairysoapgirl will you email me and tell me more about your label maker the size, tape it takes and the cost? Shoot, you can just post it here if you want to. As soon as I get the daylilies in the mail from the person who adopted me I'll start making a wish list. Then I'll see what I can find at the sale. Shoot I may take my laptop with me so I can search and see what they look like before I purchase any. I finally decided to give up on posting the pictures of the two daylilies I had. I thought about the blonde joke about them making corrections on the screen with whiteout. I was seriously thinking about clipping some pictures out and sticking them to my monitor. Then asking you what you thought about my pictures of daylilies I posted. Then I realized no one would think that was funny but me. (grin) Happy Gardening, Marian

Well, Debra, I bred and showed Shih Tzu dogs and had seven champions. To be a successful dog breeder, I studied genetics. There is a lot more to breeding than just one pretty face to another, whether it be dogs or daylilies. The daylilies mentioned here in this thread are fine, and proven parents of notable progeny. But if fairysoapgirl is cross-pollinating to improve daylilies, she will consider the strong points and the weak of each parent and grandparent, and try to correct any deficiencies in the next generation. Or if she is looking for a desired outcome in the progeny, she will want to know about the possible results that she can obtain through careful analysis of the pros and cons of parents and especially grandparents. There is nothing wrong with cross-pollinating two fine daylilies. It depends on what one wants to achieve in the long run. Even taking a studied and scientific approach gives no guarantees. It only increases the odds of achieving the desired end result. For example, I have two diploid daylilies that have outstanding characteristics. Given sufficient rainfall, they bloom from March to August, non-stop. They are very healthy plants, even though they have never been fertilized or sprayed with anything at all. They are very fertile in four ways: pollen, pods, naturally occurring proliferations and increasing fans. With these characteristics, I think their genes should be preserved for future generations. So impressed I am with their qualities, I hope to have them converted to tetraploid, also. Why? Because they have much to contribute to the improvement of the modern daylily. As for plant diseases, careful breeding can help to reduce or eliminate them. What if one of these listed daylilies should have a parent that is a rust magnet? (I'm not saying that this is the case.) Even if one of these daylilies shows no signs of the disease, the gene for susceptibility can be carried recessively down to future generations. That's another serious reason that it is important to know who the parents are. Here's a brief example, albeit an oversimplification: I have a very pretty spider daylily that is not pod fertile. If I cross that daylily with one of my two daylilies mentioned above, I could then hope for some of the progeny of that cross to have the physical appearance of the pretty spider, and the pod fertility of the other parent. In that way, I would be making an improvement. Making informed choices in breeding is how I was fortunate enough to produce one of the top Shih Tzu at the National Specialty some years back. Planning your crosses is a matter of choice left up to the individual. It's your call, but I doubt that you will find very many of the highly successful hybridizers who do not take genetics into consideration.