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My heatbusting baby
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Posted by
shive 6b TN (
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Sun, Jun 24, 12 at 11:26
| I am so pleased with this seedling. No one ever picks it as a favorite when I show seedling pics. But this one has the right stuff, especially in the heatbusting department. The cross is a NOID yellow cream with green gold edges and Chartered Course.
Here is the seedling last night at 7 p.m. after enduring a very humid day with an official high of 94 degrees. (My garden thermometer read 97.) It was nearly the same color as when it opened yesterday morning and looked better than any of 600 plus registered cultivars in my garden.
The petals are very thick and rubbery. I hope to use this plant to develop a line of "heatbuster" daylilies. As you can see, she is a real pod hussy, easily setting pods even the hottest days. The seedling has four-way branching and 22 buds on a 29-inch scape. So far it hasn't been so top-branched as to keep flowers from opening. It reblooms: see the nice rebloom scape to the right of the second bloom.
Here is the seedling this morning. Notice that the color doesn't change much from morning to night.
Debra
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RE: My heatbusting baby
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| It cettainly does stand up to the heat. Congrats on your seedling, very pretty. |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| very sweet, I like it! Isn't nice to get a keeper? |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| Dani - Yes, it's great to get a keeper. I'm leaving this one where it is, and getting rid of and relocating some others around it when it gets cooler to give it more sun and room to grow. I'm going to check to see if there is a daylily named "Rubber Maid." Debra |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| Well Debra, the reason she isn't picked is because you post others that are more colorful and it takes the attention away from this beauty. Frankly, my dear Scarlet, I love it. it has a nice soft pink color and I can see that it's a fertile little "hussy" I really like it. Good one to use for your program...Ellie |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| It is a very dainty looking color, & while I like the soft pinks, the bold (gaudy) ones may often catch my eye, more because I know they will be the first to be noticed in my garden. A bloom that can hold its own in the heat of day is nothing to be sneezed at though, it is a winner. More than anything, I want a daylily that produces lots & lots of blooms & opens well, seems like you have that. |
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That is a very nice heatbusting pink baby!
kay |
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Well, and so you did what every proud mama does, you gave her a solo so she would get all the attention she deserves! I wish 'heatbusting' was higher on all the hybridizers priotity lists. RUBBER MAID indeed.
Christine |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| Thanks for your feedback everyone. The name Rubber Maid is not taken, so that's what I'm calling her for now. Christine - What amazes me when I look at my list of registered daylilies that are heatbusters here, the majority of them come from Northern hybridizers: Reckamp, Korth, Hibbard, Hanson, Moldovan, Whatley, Schwarz, Sellers, Santa Lucia, Rice, Reed and Murphy. You would think those Florida hybridizers, who swelter in the heat for months nonstop, would have made "heatbusters" more of a priority. Debra |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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- Posted by maryl Z7 Okla. (My Page) on
Sun, Jun 24, 12 at 18:02
| Oh I like it. Just the fact that it's not melting in this heat is a big plus. Substance is a big deal to those of us with hot summers. I just looked at Linda Beck and she looks like a limp noodle from the heat (99 degrees). The fact that you took the picture at the end of the day and it looked like that impresses me. Rubber Made (pun intended) indeed!.......Maryl |
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It is always good to get one that stands up to heat. Most just wither away by mid day.
Congrats on getting one that will stand up to the heat. The reason probably no one picks it as a favorite before is because you show so many beautiful blooms our eyes are on overdrive.LOL Julia |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| I like the very delicate coloring, and holding up to the heat is a real plus. We must all get dazed by your other seedlings not to have commented on this one. |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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| well,its a very pretty one, too.I love the color, but, you have so many gorgeous ones,till I always notice the bright ones forst and usually choose them as favorite.They are attention getters. but, I like that soft pink, too and iit sure is a winner if it stands up to upper 90's temp, how baout temps over 100. jean |
RE: Jean
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| Jean - Apparently I will be testing the seedling in temps over 100 degrees soon. The forecast is calling for a couple 101 degree days this week. Debra |
RE: My heatbusting baby
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I think it is a pretty seedling, you might be on to something with it since it hold so well in the heat.
Linda |
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