I like most of your pink toothies. I have success with teeth on my lilies unlike the chicken fat which just hangs up and doesn't open here. After seeing the difference in your Ruby Lipstick and what others post as well as the difference in Celeste's purples and everyone elses, is there anything known as to how pH or micro nutrients in the soil affect the color of day lilies?

Heidi

I am sure soil ph may have a lot to do with color. We just haven't had our soil tested. We keep talking about it but don't seem to get it done. From what I understand, we would need to get it tested from every bed, not just one.

Nancy

Nancy: I've seen several pics of Ruby Lipstick that will look like yours. Check our garden.org and you will see that not all show a creamy color. https://garden.org/plants/view/63390/Daylily-Hemerocallis-Ruby-Lipstick/

Nice pics of pics.

Very nice! I have to admit I am with Bob on these bright oranges. Love the way they stand out in the garden! Seedlings look great.

Kate

I like your pink seedlings, especially the toothy ones, and like bBob, I like the color of Bo Diddley.

I like your seedlings, each has a little something going for it.

Sherry

My favorites are your last too seedlings.

I remember how disappointed New York Rita was when her Ruby Lipstick bloomed looking like yours. My early blooms of RL look like that if photographed in the sun. But as it gets hotter, the petal color lightens a lot, and remember most of my photos are taken in shade. I still think yours is pretty! You seem to have built a nice collection of late bloomers, and several - like those above - I've never seen. Do you group yours together, or spread the lates throughout the garden? All of the seedlings on this post look great! You have a lot of nice toothy seedlings now.

Debra

The toothy seedlings are all gorgeous, my favorite being Interview with a Vampire X Crimson Stories. And when you said that you may have loaded Interview with a Vampire down with too many pods, did you mean that you made too many crosses on it? This is something I was wondering about. At what point do you decide to stop making crosses onto a specific plant? If it's healthy and has some size, will it support numerous crosses against it? And will a single scape handle more than one or two pods?

Alex

Thank you all for the compliments on the seedlings.

Debra, we are keeping Ruby Lipstick even if it has been somewhat disappointing to us. It will just remind me how much work we have to do to get that "pure" white with intense red eye. Also, we do group most of the lates in the "late bed". (We have such imaginative names for the beds!) We really enjoy seeing all those blooms together when the rest of the garden is lacking flowers. Some of the lates won't fit though. (We are running out of space.)

Alex, I try not to load new plants with pods (maybe just one or two), but I will cross onto newly planted ones. The established ones I may pollinate almost every flower. If it's a good seed setter I may get numerous pods, many of which are one the same scape. Some plants will pout the next year after such treatment and others will not. I used Interview with a Vampire heavily last year and this year it is not doing much. It may have been all the pods last year exhausted it or it may be the erratic weather we had this spring. Who know? I am taking it easy on Interview with a Vampire this year.

Nancy

Thanks, Nancy. I'm already really looking forward to next year when I will have some new acquisitions to work with, and will feel OK about making crosses onto a few of these 2nd years - or rather, 3rd years as they will be. Some I have developed a fondness for, and think they have potential.

Alex

Alex, here's a picture of a scape loaded with pods. You can see some of the flowers didn't set seed, so there would have been more pods if I had had my way. That plant is a small clump with probably 12 pods on it.

I think you are on to something with your pinks seedlings. I would. I love pink. There are so many pale pinks out there that I like seeing a more medium to dark pink being hybridized. Susan x Lady is a really attractive shade of medium pink with the fuller form that I favor. Chance Encounter x Forestlake is another one I like. The edge is very nice on that one............Maryl

Nancy - good to know. I'm already envisioning areas in the corral garden that I could devote to daylilies. And realizing that next year, I can feel free (with only a little sense of guilt) to cull some of the ones from this year if they don't improve. Space would fast become an issue as I start new seedlings, I can see.

Alex

Very nice group! I especially like your seedlings, with your seedling queen ranking as my favorite.

Lori

Ruby Lipstick is happy after I moved it.

Speaking of seedlings, where has Edward been? He always has some nice ones, plus his wonderful daylilies including Yellow Monkey!

We haven't heard from Ed this summer, either.