I have had prolifs flower on the stem like that twice now. Weird, isn't it? I don't remember what it was last year that did that, but the blooms were the blooming with the plant's other blooms and I did not notice for a bit. It had a decent number of blooms too, on a branched scape.

I do think a plant can be crossed with itself. I intentionally did that with Indian Giver years ago, hoping to get some that looked like Indian Giver. They resembled Indian Giver but just were not quite as pretty. I kept them a few years.

Cherry Treat is quite pretty.

I have no clue about crosses, but I had one of my daylilies produce a prolif that bloomed. It had 3 buds on it. I took a picture back then but can't find it now. None of the blooms looked as nice as your yellow one (if that is a prolif bloom) and I presumed it was because it was a "weird" way to grow and bloom............Maryl

No, never saw a prolif still attached to the scape bloom. Interesting.

Julia

We have seen several prolifs blooming. I prefer they don't because the prolif never seems to do well if they bloom too early.

As for selfing a daylily, it can be done. Hybridizers might do this to concentrate a certain characteristic he is seeking in the offspring. In your case, there is no way of knowing if it was self pollinated or if that bee that pollinated it was carrying pollen from another daylily, maybe a nearby orange one if you got orange tones in your seedling.

Species daylilies might be self sterile though.

Nancy

I have seen prolifs like that several times.

I have one just like that on my Rhapsody in Blue lily. It did the same thing last year. I was able to start a plant for my daughter with one, it didn't bloom this year but should next year.

A daylily can pollinate itself. For daylilies that won't set seed, many hybridizers will pollinate that daylily with its own pollen and a pod will take. Supposedly they are more likely to set seed with their own pollen. After that, they say you can get other pollen to take.

Debra