njmomma - a seed pod is a result of a "hybridization" or cross of two daylilies. It can either be done by you, or by a bee, butterfly, grasshopper, wind etc. A pod will only form if the flower has been pollinated. The only way to know if you pollinated it, is by good hybridizing practices - meaning things like you covering your stamen after pollinating, and not allowing other things to pollinate before or after you...

Really? So all those Stella D'Oros I see full of seed pods at businesses, etc... were all pollinated by insects or wind? Wow! I thought seed pods just started to grow if you don't deadhead.

I didn't use "good hybridizing" methods. I just covered the whole stamen with pollen and didn't dead head and tagged it. I can't imagine anything could pollinate it after me because the stamen was covered with pollen.

Okay, I'm hopeful now.

Yep, Stella is well known for pollinating itself - the flowers are really fertile and there are lots of flowers!! Most likely, you were the one who made the cross. If you wanted to be very serious - aka going to intro your flowers, or sell them, you would want to be sure you actually did the crossing, so you could quote the parantage (Navy Blues x Itty Bitty Blue). But, even the big guys get surprises some times... you'll see things like Navy Blues x Unk. Those bees are sneaky!! :o)

I read an article by Oscie Whatley on the AHS archive and he had made a similiar comment--

"There is very little reason to protect an early cross that has its stigma loaded over with a cake of pollen. (Rain is an exception.)"