That is fantastic, Nancy!! Wow, 1600!!! That really is going to be so exciting once blooming starts!
I'm really sorry to hear about your losing plants, especially those seedlings you wanted to register. I know I really struggle with not being upset on days after winter, when I have to count up which ones I lost to freeze/thaw.
Sounds like you got some great ones coming. I want Eenie Meenie Jelly Beenie, so I'll be waiting to see your pictures of what it looks like :)

Wow Nancy! You have really been working! This is the first time I have lost anything to crown rot so I sympathize so much with you,,,I will want Spoken in Parables replaced for sure, and I have replaced the others...I had only four, so you had terrible damage. I hope that next year is a better year. I am especially sorry for your seedling loss.

kay

1600, incredible! 1600 surprise packages. Congrats. How did you handle all the record keeping. Are all the little babies marked in their new beds as to the pod parent etc?

Sure was a lot of work you got done. Hopefully the weather will improve from now on and no more plant losses.

Out of curiosity, if you have time, what are some of the crosses you did?

Wow, that had to have been a huge job!! It is sad to lose a few. I have Happy Happy, and Sir Francis Drake on my list!!!
cindy

Wow! What a job. Can't wait to see pics of your babies when they're big enough to bloom.

Sorry to hear you lost so many. I had a few that struggled this year due to no rain-but I've never lost more than a couple a year if that. I did lose a couple seedlings last year when they got frost heaved and then flooded in the spring-But as I never got to see them bloom, I couldn't miss them too much.
I probably have about 250 seeds that I will need to start in the early spring. Since I don't have a greenhouse I usually lose about a quarter before spring hits. I tend to either over or under water. I make hubby take care of my houseplants so I don't kill them. I don't know why I can grow outdoor plants but kill indoor ones!

Do you have a list of those you lost? If I have a few of them I'd be happy to share in the spring.

wow, 1600 seedlings to plant, now that was work.even with help that be work.I could not do it.i done got too old for it, when I get down on my knees, I can not get back up, and that has just started this year.now,I work just to get back up when sitting on a little stool, but can geet up from that, just cant make it if I get on the knees.am so sorry you lost all them plants., hope this coming year will bw much better for you.

Jean

Are you sure they're all completely dead? I had a MING PORCELAIN that got planted late because it was a gift, and it crisped up and disappeared for the last couple months, but I just left it alone, and since about a week ago it has been fanning up again.

I'm not sure what I'm doing right (or not doing wrong), but I haven't lost any adult plants this year. The seedlings are a bit more fragile, so I've killed a few of them.

Nate

Actually, I thought we had lost a lot more, but we did get an all-day rain a couple of weeks ago, and there are signs of life in some that I had thought were gone.

Below is a list of the registered daylilies we lost. Most of them were established clumps.

Rose Emily
My Heart Belongs To Daddy (new, will be replaced)
Mildred Mitchell
Sabine Baur
Platinum and Gold
Malaysian Monarch
Chama Valley
Concorde Nelson
Yesterday Memories
Sherry Lane Carr
Lady Neva
Ruffled Perfection (one of my favorite dips)
All The Magic
Vintage Bordeaux
Pat Soileau
Pandora's Treasure
Charles Johnston
Galaxy Explosion
Sublime Enchantment
Surprise Encounter
Mask of Eternity
Marilyn Siwik
Clothed in Glory
Oktoberfest
Evelyn Kloeris
Tetra Connie Burton (new this year, never did thrive)
Orange Velvet
Chartered Course
Tetra Siloam Ralph Henry (it never did well here)
Seize The Night
Fire Music
San Juan Sunset
Court Magician
Bas Relief (the first one to die)
Good Morning America
Shaka Zulu
Alpine Ruffles (new this year, but did not survive)
Last Flight Out
Darla Anita
Last Frontier (huge clump - wasn't expecting this)
America's Most Wanted
Electric Marmalade Magic (new this year)
Tune The Harp
Romeo Is Bleeding
Pure and Simple
Winning Note
Wishmaster (one tiny nub remaining - it might make it)
Blue Pink Beauty (new clump this year)
Scaramouche
Dragon King
Fortune's Dearest
Pirate's Lady
Debbie Smith (new this year)
Watchyl Lavender Blue
Felicia Grace
Bonnie Holley
Lord of Rings
Beside Still Waters
President Ronald Reagan

I have been having health problems since January from what I believe was a bad reaction to the antibiotic Levaquin, so have been really under the weather since then. I wasn't able to get out and spray the daylilies with K-Phite this spring. When I first started dabbing pollen, I didn't keep any records of the pollen parents because it seemed like too much effort. I finally came to my senses half-way through the flowering period and started tagging the crosses. Due to so much wind and having to water, water, water, the tags were in pretty much of a mess when harvest time arrived.

Jean, like you, once I get down on my garden cart I can't get back up again. Thanks to the after-effects of Levaquin, I can just barely get into my SUV now. So, if anything gets done in the daylily bed, I have to get help. I can manage to pull up a weed here and there. I even got brave this morning and planted two daylilies that arrived a couple of days ago.

Some of the recorded crosses:

America's Most Wanted x J. T. Davis
Midnight Magic x Born To Run
One Step Beyond x Casa des Juan
Enchanting Esmerelda x Pathway to Paradise
God Save The Queen x Casa des Juan
Invitation to Immortality x Leslie Renee
Greek Effect x Mildred Mitchell
God Save The Queen x Carnival In Mexico
Last Flight Out x Cerulean Warbler
Inherited Wealth x Crazy Ivan
Divine Comedy x Claudine's Charm
Sherry Lane Carr x Angelwalker
Spacecoast Gone Bulldoggin' x Out Of This World
Enchanting Esmerelda x Belle Cook
Desperado Love x Crazy Ivan
Angelwalker x Spacecoast Gone Bulldoggin'
Kate Carpenter x Out Of This World
Invitation to Immortality x Song Triumphant
Great White x Claudine's Charm
God Save The Queen x Mildred Mitchell
J. T. Davis x Malaysian Monarch
Betty Warren Woods x Pathway To Paradise
Invitation to Immortality x Carnival In Mexico
Beautiful Edgings x Double Cranberry Ruffles
Born To Run x Song Triumphant
Scarlet Orbit x Victorian Lace
Roses In Snow x Presumed Innocent
Collectors Choice x Belle Cook
Roman Cohort x Darla Anita
Song Writer x Vatican City
Mask of Time x God Save The Queen
Tupac Amaru x Song Triumphant
Song Writer x Mildred Mitchell

Half-way through sprouting and planting seeds, I realized I couldn't possibly grow so many seedlings, so most of the seeds from recorded crosses were sent to a young couple in Mexico who are very interested in growing and hybridizing daylilies. They live in Comitan de las Flores near the Guadalajara border, and they tell me it is neither hot nor cold there - like a year-round spring. The daylilies are having a long blooming season there. They were still living here when we moved from the country last year, so I gave them a lot of the daylilies I couldn't bring with me. They were realy fascinated with the multiple-colored ones, stating that there were only flowers of just one color growing down where they were from.

What I did not know was that the entire postal system in Mexico shuts down for a week during their national holiday on Sept. 16, so the seeds had to sit at their post office until it reopened the following week. I haven't heard from them yet if they made it O.K.

Nancy

I can't imagine planting that many seedlings, but what a thrill it will be to see them bloom. I really feel badly that you lost so many daylilies this summer--especially the seedlings that you were going to register. That must be heartbreaking. I often thought about everyone who was having such terrible summer weather. Here it's the winter when I have to worry about losses. Sure hope that you have a good summer and that all you new babies make it.
Val