Re: daylily offsets?
- Subject: Re: daylily offsets?
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:36:06 EDT
>Several years ago, one of my common daylilies produced an offset. I
>planted it to see what would happen. The following summer the plant was
>huge. Two summers later the plant grew to be 3-4 feet tall with a 5-6
>foot flower stalk and the orange flowers were a double/double. I call it
>Len's Quad because of the 4 layers of petals. The plant is also very
>vigorous and spreads rapidly by runners.
I need the daylily experts to help me understand what Len is saying. Wouldn't
an offset be genetically the same as the parent plant, unless it was an
unusual sport? And wouldn't the same be true for a proliferation? So that
maybe what Len has found and grown on is a seedling rather than an offset--in
other words, the parent plant set seed, and it fell to the ground and created
this new plant?
Bill Lee
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