Those look good! I especially like the 1st and 3rd. My pictures are on my laptop, which is having some kind of problem. Hoping my son has time to look at ot tomorrow.

Lovely! I especially love #3. I like the shape of the eye and the big green throat. The next to the last one catches eye too.

I have lots of seedling pictures, but I picked the best so as not to bore you all. We don't keep stats on flowers until they are selected for introduction. I'll make comments about their performance (If I remember). I'll start with small-flowered ones.

I am working on small tets with an edge, hopefully teeth. I was glad to see this seeding with a rich color and some gold edge. This is its first year blooming. It is Carpathian Magic X (Little Red Bantam X Randy Stephens).

This is Daddy's Heart X Serenade of Springtime. It is also its first year to bloom.

Now for some eyed ones.

I was actually surprised to see this yellow base color on Ashwood Summer Sunshine X Crimson Stories. This is the first year for it to bloom.

Let's Dance Tonight X Gary Lynn's Calliopsis is another first year bloomer. I have high hopes for the offspring of Let's Dance Tonight, which is a fancy southern bred one that thrives in our garden. It's very fertile too. I can see it giving its fanciness to its offspring.

Pumpkin Prince X Gavin Petit is in our observation bed (it's maybe years old) and is a possible introduction. It's not very tall, but the flowers are such a rich color.

I'll put the red and whites in the next comment.

Nancy

Now for some toothy seedlings. This is Chomp X Mitch Lynd. It is about 4 years old.

This 2 year old seedling impressed us. The scape is a nice height and the flowers are large. It is Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding X seedling).

This is My Friend Mary Jane X Crimson Stories. It's not very tall, but decently budded. This is its third year to bloom.

This first year bloomer is Pineapple Bites X The Bride of Dracula. This one made Bob very happy.

This second year seedling is tall and blooms late. It is Ruffled Strawberry Parfait X (Horns X Sea of Cinders). There are at least two sibs that look interesting too.

This one is not as tall as we would like. We haven't counted buds yet either. Whatever the count is, it will stay in the garden. It is Sea of Cinders X Happy Holidays to You. We think the color is outstanding and the edge is nice too. We wish it had more teeth on the sepals.

This two year old seedling is Swimming with Sharks X Randy Stephens. It is tall and well budded.

I'll put a couple miscellaneous seedlings in the next comment.

I was interested in this first year bloomer, even though it is not the kind I usually favor. I like the green throat and the saturated color of the petals. The more tailored look is a nice change from the fancier ones. It is Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding X Tet. Rose F. Kennedy.

I would have expected more of an eye on Lava Flow X Gary Lynn's Calliopsis. This first year bloomer was one of the first seedlings to bloom. It must get its earliness from Lava Flow, one of the first to bloom in our garden. By the way, this one made Bob very happy too.

We crossed Miracles Have Messages with Patricia Ann's Calliopsis, two bitones and got this lovely red. I expected a bitone.

I'll finish up with this three year old seedling. It is Oktoberfest X (Pat Garrity X Gavin Petit). Bob loves this one, but I preferred its sibling. Both got moved to the observation bed. This one could be taller, though.

I'm sorry if I bored you all, but I am suffering from daylily deprivation in the worst way. I think we had 3 named varieties (out of over a thousand) blooming today and a couple of seedlings. We are beginning to see some rebloom scapes now that the rain has come back, but I don't know if they will develop well. The forecast calls for cooler than normal temperatures for this time of year here.

Nancy

HoosierNan, thank you so much for sharing those images . I too am suffering from lack of bloom.

You have some real lookers there .......hard to choose which I like better . I do like Carpathian Magic X (Little Red Bantam X Randy Stephens and love the color on Pumpkin Prince X Gavin Petit , Oh heck like I said too hard to pick . Another stand out for me is Sea of Cinders X Happy Holidays to You however if I had a chance to add any of these to my gardens I would be hard pressed to say no to any of them.

Hi folks,

I've been sort of out of the loop; but have been busy with all the seedlings this year. Thank you, Heather, for "knocking on my door" and asking to see my babies - lol. As things are winding down now, I will make the effort to catch up on all your photos and threads this winter.

Heather and Nancy - Oh My God...these are all GORGEOUS!!! Hard to choose... I think that very first one of yours, Heather is a favorite, though. The color, shape, it's look of substance - and you don't think you have anything spectacular?! And out of yours, Nancy - I'll choose Bob's happy Pineapple Bites x Bride of Dracula - wow!

OK, here goes, and I hope I don't bore anybody either - lol - because I'm pretty excited about these first ever bloomers. I'll do some dips first:

Rose F Kennedy x Heavenly Angel Ice seedlings (courtesy of Laura) All blooms are 7+ inches; scapes are fairly tall; well-budding and branched mostly, but I'll figure that stuff out later. Here are 4 of the 8:

More dips in next comment.

Alex

Here are some of the dips from the Lily Auction: Moonsworn x Suburban Carey Roberts - 2 of those; these vary quite a bit stat-wise:

More to come.

Alex

Dips still: Bold Awakenings x Wild Dreams - the purple sort of blew my mind...

Dips contd: Westbourne Missing Sweet Pea x Butterfly Whimsy:

and another Westbourne Ol' Mining Camp x Center of the Universe - only 1 seed of this batch made it:

Tets coming next.

Alex

I have a couple of tet sets that were from the LA and will do one of those first. But the remainder are all from seeds contributed by Nancy and Bob (hoosier Nan and husband), and I can't tell you how jazzed I am at the prospects awaiting me in 2021! :)

From the LA - Frank's Catnapping x Mystical Intuition (gotta love that combination of names):

And now some of the other tets - only know pod parents on these. Going to be hard to choose a reasonable number - lol - remember this is my first big year with this many seedlings - forgive me. :) In alphabetical order:

Blessings in a Backpack x unknown:

Cactus Blossom x unknown - will post two; it had multiple variations:

Dr. Jules Michael Vinkman x unknown:

Gaudy Gaudy x unknown - this is tall, strong scaped, heavy substance and was not anything like what I was expecting to see - photo doesn't do justice:

Jules de Lambre x unknown - also variations, but will choose the one I like best:

I was not so much a fan of this mostly short, small flowered Lillian's Tears and Roses x unknown, but 2 of my Amish neighbors independently picked it out of many flashier blooms as their favorites, so I have been looking at it more closely. It bloomed like crazy!:

Linda Beck x unknown - pretty, but short and all the seedlings seem to be struggling:

Will save the others for next comment.

Alex

I had a number of nice versions of Love for Jesus x unknown - here are a few:

Wasn't sure I liked Margin of Error x unknown when the seedlings first started to bloom - had trouble with mites a lot in beginning of season, but then it did this:

and this...

and - omg - this!

here's an evening shot of two of the seedlings:

Will add Marvelous Madness x unknown to this set, then will take a break till later. MM was consistently short - 9 seedlings in all, but what beauties most of them! First an evening shot of one of the darker versions:

More later. Just reminding you, Heather - you asked for this - lol.

Alex

Heather - I love the third one and the next to the last!

Hoosier Nancy - I love that first red one and all the eyed and edged ones. My favorite of the toothy guys are Chomp X Mitch Lind and Pineapple Bites X Bride of Dracula.

Alex - Lots of your patterned dips impress me. So pretty!

Debra

Alex, all I can say is "Wow!". You have some beautiful seedlings! I don't know where to begin. Does the second one from the Rose F. Kennedy X Angel Ice always have half of a petal and sepal white?

You have some lovely patterned ones, especially Crashing the Crease X Veined Variations and the second one from Bold Awakening X Wild Dreams.

It's interesting to see what you got from the 'bee' seeds we sent you. Maybe we should rethink not planting those. You have some lovelies in that group. I especially like the Love for Jesus group. The third one has nice rich color.

Very impressive! Isn't growing seedlings fun!

Nancy

Alex, OMG ! I can see why you have been so busy. Where to start? Your Rose F Kennedy x Heavenly Angel Ice seedlings . Oh how I wish someone could produce a complete and stable version of your second bloom !! I would stand in line for a bloom whose petals were half white half purple . Your bloom is almost there !!!!!!! So unusual and that is my wheelhouse . I like the unusual ones . That being said , I love your number 3 in this set and always blows my mind just how different sibs can be. Your number 4 obviously takes its cue from Papa for its color ...

In your second set , one and two speak to me ( come hither or is that Heather LOL! )

Bold Awakenings x Wild Dreams almost takes on the looks of a pansy ........wow that is pretty ! Of course who would walk away from your Crashing the Crease x Veined Variations bloom ....what great patterning , lucky you !!!!!!!!!! . Only pattern I saw this season was on Get Jiggy which actually did show its patterning for some reason . .

Are all three next images of Westbourne Missing Sweet Pea x Butterfly Whimsy the same daylily or sibs? I really like the flat face of number 1 and the coloring of number 3 in this set.

In the next set numbers 1 ,2 and 9 are on my radar and the next set after that number 1 ( argh! why couldn't that one be in my gardens?

And finally what a great purple in Marvelous Madness x unknown

I am at 6's and 7's as to whether or not I like cristates like your Margin of Error x unknown image. I definitely did not like doubles starting out ......but they have grown on me and now I am a fan of them . I am sure if I saw this bloom in person I would be captured but I cant commit . It is so hard to tell from an image. Perhaps it is the coloring ( I am not a fan of pink and red mix but that is just a personal preference .) Like many daylilies what you see in person just can't be captured in an image.

Just an FYI .......I am definitely not sorry I asked if you would share your images. Girl , you have got such great blooms !

Oh my goodness, people! I have to wipe my chin, still drooling! So many lovely creations here. Alex, Your Bold awakening x Wild Dreams seedlings are gorgeous! Nancy, love your red and white seedlings! heather, I adore that last yellow seedling you posted, such a lovely edge!

Sherry

Here are a few more from my gardens .

This is a second year for this seedling above

Debra - thanks! I was looking particularly for patterns when I ordered the seeds, and wasn't disappointed.

Nancy - I know it can be boring to be thanked continuously, but THANK YOU! I haven't even posted some of yours I like the most - those are coming up. And there really is no way to get everything planted, after all. Your gift went to a good cause. :) Yes! I LOVE growing seedlings!!!

Heather - I asked the question myself on the Daylily Hybridizers page at FB, and was informed that the effect on the RFK seedling is a chimera and not necessarily inheritable. Certainly, it was not present in other blooms of that plant or its siblings. That didn't stop me from making all the crosses I could with it, though.

The Westbournes are all different seedlings, one assumes sibs, but don't know that for certain as they were LA buys.

About the pink and red mix - that was part of my issue with the Margin for Error seedlings, but I swear they have grown on me. Will use them more next year.

Sherry - thanks! I was very pleased with the coloration of the Bold Awakenings, but those and Crashing the Crease have issues with not opening well until later in the day, if at all. Will see what happens with their offspring.

Will post more images in the next comment.

Alex

More tets: New Tangerine Twist x unknown:

Pineapple Bites x unknown doing the poly:

Stabia seedlings - these are my gems - am expecting good things from the crosses with these:

The last is an evening shot showing freckles in this darkest of the Stabia seedlings. All the Stabias are fairly tall; the tallest about 48", and blooms are at least 7", but often larger. Branching and budding was good. Some are still going.

More later.

Alex

Heather - I love the white All American Windmill and the UF Seedling NH - beautiful! What's their poly?

Alex

Alex - The Stabia seedlings do look promising!

Heather - Your seedling clumps look good!

Debra

Posting the last of the seedlings for now. Here are 2 Tropical Fusion x unknown siblings - these were really lovely big blooms on medium scapes, decent branching:

2 rather different Westbourne Good Old Days x unknown sibs:

3 Wandering Werribee x unknown sibs - am really enamored with the 3rd odd color purple-tinted one:

Where's Waldo x unknown - these were short but made up for it with the bold coloration:

And an evening group shot of Where's Waldo, Lillian's Tears and Roses and Stabia towering over all:

Thanks for looking!

Alex

There are lots of beauties on this thread! Great job, everyone! As one who has just gotten

into hybridizing my own, I always enjoy these kind of posts. It is so much fun to anticipate

what will come of our efforts. I have gone overboard with setting pods and will have too many

to start all of them, but it was fun being a busy bee! I have two 6 month old siblings with scapes...I am shocked that they would bloom already, and in my zone. I can feel the excitement

building, just knowing I will soon see my first babies.

BTW, I have NO idea why Houzz dissects my sentences like it did above....I did not type them that way. LOL

Oh, Celeste - I just figured you were taking poetic license - lol.

Alex

Meant to say, too, that I had some seedlings scape in their first season last year, but the blooms were disappointing, and not much like what I have seen this year. So don't worry if they don't "wow" you right away. :) But you might want to remove them.

Alex

Alex, I am much too curious to remove them! I probably 'should' but will I? Nope. And I expect them to be ugly. LOL

Alex , wow, lots of great blooms here . For me the 3rd Wandering Werribee x unknown seedling is my very very favourite . Nothing wrong with numbers one and tow either.
Again always amazes me that sibs can be so very different from each other . I also like the first Westbourne seedling too ..It looks to be a huge bloom

Even if they are ugly in the first season , if you have room to keep them it may be wise to do so . It is amazing how much a bloom from a seedling can change in 3 years. Now you know why hybridizers take 3 to sometimes 7 years to intro a plant. I have had ones that are beauties in their first season and become dogs in the second or third . You just don't know what the cosmos has in store for the future.

Lots of great seedlings above! I do enjoy seeing them. I wish Edward was still posting; he always had some great ones.

I posted mine here but they disappeared. You all saw all of mine this summer [there are only 7] so I don't think I'll try again.

Future: I had a lot of bee pollen seed pods set & ripen this year since I wasn't out and about to pluck them. so who knows what I may find in the furture. One I picked & I'm excited for: Carmen Renee x ?. I've been trying for several years to get a pod from it or have it be a pollen parent but nothing ever happened.

Brad

Celeste - I didn't remove the first bloom either - lol. It was one of the Westbourne Good Old Days, but darn! - didn't make note at the time which one it was. It had 3 blooms in all. And this season, when everything started blooming, most of the first blooms weren't all that nice. It seemed like the plant would have a "dress rehearsal" before deciding how it was going to look, and then one morning...BOOM!

Heather - all the Westbourne tets were good size - 6+ inches. Height varied but averaged at least 30". That one with the wonderful eye was the tallest of them - sorry, don't have specs at moment, but over 30 inches.

I thought you'd like that odd purple Wandering Werribee - lol.

Alex