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Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

haxuan
12 years ago

This morning, the "baby" showed off.

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Although baby, as well as mother, is not as big as their "Western ancestors", they are very healthy and beautiful.

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You're right, Annette, that we didn't know how the baby would look like. Actually, it looks quite different from all the photos in your previous post.

Another plant is spiking. I'm so thrilled about the results.

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Here're series of photos showing how the "baby" was growing.

Seeds being germinated, using the method "Daylilies on the rocks"

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After germination, potting up.

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In the garden nursery bed.
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Thank you for the beautiful baby, Annette.

Xuan
Follow-Up Postings:

Time to bloom

In a previous post I said these seedlings took around 2.5 years to bloom. I'd like to correct myself now that you see in the photos above.

I started the seeds in February 2009, and one of the seedlings is blooming now, April 2011. So it took around 2 years to get to bloom, in my climate.

Xuan

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

WOW! Good for you, nice babies!!!!

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

I had my fingers crossed that it wouldn't be yellow :). Hamlet might be the mom but I have another bed of daylilies adjacent to where your moms are, one of those could be daddy. Fingers crossed the next one will be a different color but if its from the same seedpod it might be something similar.

Annette

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

Wow, that is an incredible color. Looks to me that it is very happy in your garden Xuan! ;-)
I am not familiar with that method of germinating daylily seeds. You fill a glass part way with rocks/marbles, fill with water to just below the top of rocks, and place the seeds on the rocks?? How long did it take them to sprout?

Very impressed with your daylily bed! Will love to see more blooms as they open ;-)
CMK

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

Xuan, thanks so much for the follow-up post. This is all very interesting! I can't wait to see the next one!

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

Christin: Please check out the web site below for the method "Daylilies on the Rocks". The author explains everything very clearly, with photo illustrations, too.

Thyme: I can't wait either. It looks like it might take a few more days for the next one to show off.

Here is a link that might be useful: Daylilies on the Rocks

RE: Annette, please welcome your 'grandbaby' (pics heavy)

Huxuan, thank you for sharing this method with us. That was facsinating but talk about plant porn! It sure takes a lot of patience using that method though. What other seeds would that work with using the gravel method? Wonder if moonflower seeds would work using that method? That's the only seed that I've had that was so hard like that.

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