I have a seedling which is growing on me. It has a small lightly ruffled yellow bloom - nothing to set the daylily world on fire, but there is something about it...

Don't ask me why I made the cross. (It was a long-shot thing at a poly, and at least one year this seedling had 25% poly blooms.) Don't ask me what the parentage was. (I have a guess, but can't swear to it with 100% certainty. I thought that there was nothing worth saving in that seedling bed, and had ripped all the labels out. I was digging the plants to toss them when I discovered the poly buds on this seedling and set it aside. Unfortunately I had not yet learned to also make backup maps (on the computer).)

The seedling is slightly disappointing in some ways. It is not sunfast, this year it has not been poly, and bud count and branching could be better (but as it was dug last year, that might improve). I am not sure if it has ever rebloomed (though one of its suspected parents has one rebloom here reliably).

Yet it has some good traits. It has good substance which (so far) holds (even if the color does not). It might be an EMO. (I haven't verified that yet.) It opens better on cool mornings than most of the daylilies here, including some big name ones. (I can't quite call it a CMO, but that raises the question as to what exactly does qualify as a CMO? Presumably there is SOME nighttime/early morning temperature at which all daylilies fail to open properly.) It is roundish, lightly ruffled, diamond dusted, and glows in the morning shade. I find myself looking forward to seeing if it is in bloom each morning.

In short, I like it, but I would also like to improve on it.

In that vein, I am looking for a mate for it. It must be tetraploid, round and ruffled, SUNFAST, have some rust resistance, and preferably be an EMO/CMO and have a scape height 28" or taller. I want to retain the yellow color in any offspring, and would also like good budcount and branching, and rebloom. I do not want large eyes (a smaller pencil eye might be okay). It need not be polymerous.

(I'm not asking much, am I? Lol.)

Any suggestions? I already purchased BALLERINA ON ICE last year for EMO/CMO (sadly, it shows no sign of bloom this year). I also have COYOTE MOON, which might be one of the parents of this seedling. (The deer have gotten it for the past several years - this year also - so I don't recall how it performs wrt sunfastness and EMO/CMO.)