Well, I have been struggling with the daylily hybridizing thing. Just could not seem to get things together...what was I missing? Finally it struck me how simple this should have been all the time and how complicated I had made it. It was really pretty simple, I did see it in the video...I just ignored it.
With experience I will get much better at it, but it does take learning a lot of little things that make all the difference. It was one thing to see everything presented in the videos, it was something quite different trying to put all that together in the garden. I am sure my neighbors must have been amused and puzzled by my Crazy Ant like motions up and down, back and forth , here and there all over the place in the garden.
I think the one thing that finally simplified the process the most was just writing the pollen parent initials on the tag and not adding the pod parents initials. I will add the pod parent initials when a pod is actually set or when the seed are actually harvested. That does not sound like much of a difference but it makes the process flow instead of stall.
Also having the plant markers showing if the plant was a Dip. or a Tet. was super helpful. All the lists I made and assigning Initials before hand which took a lot of work did help a little, but was not necessary.
Plus a few daylilies:
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