Re: breeding daylilies
Hi Jennifer,
Can a Bobbie answer that?
;-)
The ploidy of the new hybrids must be known in order to make crosses
(seeds). They are dips or tets and usually only cross dips/dips or
tets/tets. The old daylily will not usually cross and besides, we've come a
long way baby and in most cases want to go ahead, not back to the species
(yes there are other daylily species that ARE being explored with the new
hybrids)
It takes a lot of work and patience to do good crosses and just because you
do a cross does not mean that it 'takes' especially with tetraploids. Then
growing the seeds to bloom takes sometimes 3 years (in the north), another
couple to grow on and evaluate plant habits, and....
big time hybridizes do 40,000 seeds a year and only save 30 of them to
introduce!!!
nothing new, nothing advanced, nothing introduced!!!
there are 30,000 plus daylilies registered and I would guess 10,000 in
commerce!!!
Food for thought -
Bobbie ;-) a pollen dabber...
Bobbie Brooks, MA zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer" <jb@AWNET.COM>
To: <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [SG] How to get rid of lilies. Was: I bought a Tiger lily at
Home Depot
> A
> >
> >HI again Diann
> > Usually it is tetraploid and regular ploid but with the wild
daylilies
> >it is triploid so they have three sets of chromosones instead of single
> >pairs or double pairs. I hope I am explaining this right.
> >--
> >Bye
> >Bob Bob Axmear 208 2nd St Ne Waukon, Ia 52172
>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Can the pollen be used on the newer hybrids to perhaps produce seed?
>
> Jennifer
> Wpg MB CA
> Zone 3
>
