Daylily seeds are so easy to germinate, you really don't need any elaborate methods. Soak the seed for a day or two will probably help. The peroxide may or may not be doing anything.

Honestly, I am on dial up and I don't have enough time right now to wait for that huge page to download, so I probably didn't get all the nuances.

I have found I have the best germination if I plant the seeds as soon as I harvest them in late summer. I plant them in a row so I can tell them from the grass that might come up around them. After a year or so I transplant them farther apart. It is very easy to hand cross-pollinate daylilies and the results can be highly varied and as nice as many of the fancy kinds in the catalogs. Northwoods Wisconsin

I planted mine inside in cups. Out of 62 seeds, 53 have germinated. This is my first time starting seeds so I don't think that's to bad. I was wondering about starting them directly in the garden. Sounds good northwoodwis. Do you mulch the daylilies in the fall? They wouldn't be very big would they? I think I may try some this way next year. Marg

Can Daylily seeds be purchased? I have had no luck finding any but I am curious to try them. Jamie

Hi Jamie. I believe the name of the place to bid on seeds is LA Auction. I just did a google search for 'LA Auction, daylily seeds' and found it. There are different types of seeds you can bid on. Hope this helps. Marg

Lets try this again. THought I posted this yesterday.
Link for cdn daylily seed source besides LA

Here is a link that might be useful: cdn source for daylily seeds

Thanks so much for all your help. I ordered some seeds from fairyscapedaylilies.com and they came today. Michaela was amazingly generous and a pleasure to order from. I highly recommend her company.

We have a lot of oaks around that naturally mulch my daylilies in the fall. I don't know if it is necessary, but probably helpful. Daylilies are pretty tough. They are probably about the easiest perennials to grow that I can think of. All they need is enough sun and protection from the deer, who love to eat the flower buds.

I planted my daylily seeds 2.5 - 3 weeks ago. I used Melanie Mason shoe box method. The shoe box is like a mini greenhouse. The seeds were not pre treated just planted straight into the soil. Some of the seeds germinated in 6 days. I planted 17 boxes of about 40+ seeds per box. Just over half the seeds are up and a few more are coming each day. For the first two weeks i was using a shop light because the sun was hardly out, but now I'm taking advantage of the sun in a south facing window.
I have some seeds for sale.

Here is a link that might be useful: SHOE BOX METHOD

Joespider: So just to be clear, you didn't presoak your seeds at all just put the into your mini greenhouse. Were they dry and crinkled when you planted them?

No they were not dry and crinkled because i dried them, for 48 hour, after harvest and had them stored in the fridge ever since.
Some people presoak and others say it's not necessary. I never presoaked because i had a-lot of work already to plant the seeds.
Bottom heat help but not necessary to germinate the seeds.

Hello, I'm new at gardening and have been watching this thread. This is my first time at plainting seeds. I soaked my seeds for about one week and then planted them in individual peat pots. Looks like I didn't keep them moist enough (did not know they could not dry out).

It's been 3 weeks and nothing is up. Have I killed the seeds? Anything I can do at this point, or is it wait and see?

My seeds were planted about 3 weeks ago and i haven't had to add any water yet. I moistened the soil before i planted the seeds. Not soaking wet just evenly moist.
You should be seeing growth by now. There still is hope. I still have some seeds coming each day.
How deep did you plant the seeds?

fillagirl: Did you soak the peat pots first? If not, they probably wicked the moisture away from the soil. I don't think the seeds are goners but then I'm no expert. This is my first year starting seeds. I would set the peat pots in a flat of lukewarm water and let them take up water. Then I would cover with a dome or plastic to keep the moisture in. Don't let it get to wet tho or the seeds will rot. I started mine in cups filled with moist soil. They germinated in about 10 days. I kept them covered until they were about 2". They are now about 4" and doing well.

Hi Joe, I didn't plant them very deep, maybe 1/2". I followed some "how to" instructions on a web site and it seems to me it was not very deep at all.

Hi Marric, no I didn't soak the peat pots (didn't know you should). I have been misting the tops of the pots every day for about a week or so now (since I figured out they could not dry out) and have put saran wrap over top to get the greenhouse effect (that's OK isn't it?)

I will try putting the pots in lukewarm water to see if that helps. Thanks for all your help, I'll let you know if I get any daylilies growing or not.

fillagirl - I always soak peat pots/pellets before planting them. The peat tends to wick water away from the plants/seeds. As Joe does, I also moisten the soil I use before filling the pot.

Go to the Homedepot and buy shoe boxes. There one sale for $1, page 3, this weeks flier.