Hi Nancy and Nate, I feel it's a 50-50 possibility. The plant may be an early bloomer, or it may indicate the plant is wimpy. Look for possibility with first bloom, but wait till the plant is well established before judging. And, do divide and see how quickly the plant recovers before feeling it's a good candidate for registering. It takes some plants 3 years to put on a show, but most people won't want to wait that long. Make sure the plant is getting 6 hours of sun daily and judge scape height over several years. Unfortunately, some plants, especially those evergreens with large flowers will have short scapes. Good luck, Ed

I didn't keep bud counts on all of mine but here are some clump shots of my most prolific bloomers. This first one may be a mislabeled seedling. One of the local hybridizers used to line out his seedlings in the same plot as my display garden. He did have an introduction out of 'Open Hearth' and I half suspect this may be a sibling. It was a real wowser though. I did count the buds on 'Desperado Love'. One scape had 32 buds, the rest counted in the high 20s. This is only a two year old plant in my garden. It blooms ML here and is still putting on a show. This one was sold to me as 'Mariachi' but I've learned it is actually 'Mariachi1' as the first "Mariachi" was a diploid that was never released. 'Mariachi1' is a tet. Take a look at this 2yr plant's branching & bloom. 'Mary Todd' is a real bloomer here too. Check out the scape on 'Mexican Maiden' 'Nile Crane' was absolutely gorgeous. Always a favorite performer here, 'Wild Horses' had a long bloom season And finally, my seedling 2007-048-003 (Jennifer Trimmer x Maltese Falcon) had what I would call 4-way branching (though when I asked the garden judges at regional to explain how they count branches they would have called this at least 6-way) and a budcount of 25 in its maiden bloom.

If so, let them grow on the scape as long as the scape is good and green below the prolif. If you're lucky they will form little roots at the base if not, I add a little rootone to the prolif when I cut it off( I always leave about 2" of scape below and above the the prolif) and put it in a pot. I usually have about a 75% or so success rate getting them to grow in pots. I keep them in light shade and keep them moist not wet. I have had blooming size plants by the next year but that depends totally on how big the prolif grows before leaving the momma. I've got 2 prolifs on my Wild Irish that I got this Spring that are huge and i'm tickled pink about this. They(the scapes) have seed pods so they will grow on the scape until I havest the seeds. I have had to remove the prolifs when they were tiny because the scape died too quick. When they are this little, it is really hard to get them to start roots. So, the longer they stay on the healthy scape the better. I had about 30 plants of Plum Perfect in the summer of 2005. I harvested around 75 prolifs from these plants that summer. I have not had a prolif on them since. I have no idea why these plants did this, I wish I did. Heres a photo showing multiply prolifs on one scape and them blooming on the scape. I was amazed!

Well, I was doing bud counts, and the plants kept putting up instant rebloom scapes and doing that bud building thing that I just decided to count scapes instead. I have been blessed with such heavy bloom and for so long a time this year. 14 scapes - Intelligent Life ...it wouldn't surprise me too much if it decided to send up a scape again. 12 scapes - Citrix, Filled to Overflowing, Count it All Joy, Heaven's Edge,Remembering Elizabeth and North Wind Dancer 10 scapes - South Seas, Cinco de Mayo, All American Windmill and Palace Garden Beauty. Citrix started with a pitiful bloom the 2nd of June. Every other bloom on it had been perfect. Today, it squeezed out one last bloom that was not perfect, but it had bloomed for so long, and almost always multiple blooms! Filled to Overflowing started blooming the 4th of June. It still has quite a few blooms to open. I had never had a day lily bloom for such a long period of time before. Three weeks was outstanding. Next year will have to be a let down since this has been such a remarkable year for bloom, instant rebloom, and regular rebloom. kay