Is there anything any prettier than a red and white Daylily. I use to try to get these in my hybridizing, now I get them lots of times. This bright red comes out of my ABILENE LILLIAN. Now I want to reverse the colors, that would be "Cool" as my Grandson says.

I'm sure I will never tire of blue. It was a long time in coming to see a whole flower with blue pigments, not solid blue yet but I believe it's coming.

Got this one today out of (ABILENE DR. TERESA BURTON X TRIBUTE TO LINDA). Dr. Burton is my Daughter. She gets most of her good looks from me and a little dab from Joyce I suppose. It measures almost 7 inches.

This one was today also. I have been breeding blues for over 10 years to get the mauve out, in this one it's back with a vengeance. It comes from my favorite blue JT-7659, the pollen parent to most of my blues crosses. I think I planted about 60 seedlings from this cross (PALACE GARDEN BEAUTY X JT 7659).  I like PGB because it does not have the mauve. I think I have got about 15 keepers in the blue line. I always do long crosses sometimes even longer than 60. Later I will talk about a long cross of (royal purple seedling X TRIBUTE TO LINDA). I selected the purple seedling because it sets seeds probably better than 75% of the time. I really believe TRIBUTE TO LINDA is the prettiest Daylily I have ever seen, google it.

JT-2012177
 I'm back on blue, my wine is also blue...I just took a Sip..OK where was I.   I'm not sure we are getting the straight poop on this blue thing yet. I'm not saying this seedling has blue (bloomed today), I use it to get your observation below. This picture was copied straight out of my camera, no editing.  We keep saying there is no blue in Daylilies, is this factual is my question? I keep looking into this by my friend Google.

Look at below (Copied from http://www.hartsdaylilies.com/genetics.htm

"It is interesting to note that particular daylilies like Stamile’s "Got the Blues" and Modavan’s "Piece of the Sky" have a definite blue color to the eye. What is different about the daylily eye? What must be done to transfer the blue color to the rest of the flower? Is it purely a matter of pigment concentration or is there more to it. Note, every daylily produced so far which has a definite blue eye produces both cyanidin and delphinidin flavonoids .We already have delphinidin and a blue color in part of some of the daylilies. Getting a blue daylily will be different from getting a blue rose. With roses it was a simple matter of transferring a gene for delphinidin into the rose. That produced a blue color. With daylilies, we are dealing with compounds, which modify the color of delphinidin".  IS THIS RIGHT? SURELY SOMEONE ON THIS ROBIN KNOWS THE TRUE FACTS IF THERE IS REALLY BLUE IN SOME DAYLILIES.  WILL PIGMENT CONCENTRATION DO IT, AS SUGGESTED?  Found in http://www.hartsdaylilies.com/genetics.htm THINK ABOUT IT

"It is interesting to note that particular daylilies like Stamile’s "Got the Blues" and Modavan’s "Piece of the Sky" have a definite blue color to the eye. What is different about the daylily eye? What must be done to transfer the blue color to the rest of the flower? Is it purely a matter of pigment concentration or is there more to it. Note, every daylily produced so far which has a definite blue eye produces both cyanidin and delphinidin flavonoids .We already have delphinidin and a blue color in part of some of the daylilies. Getting a blue daylily will be different from getting a blue rose. With roses it was a simple matter of transferring a gene for delphinidin into the rose. That produced a blue color. With daylilies, we are dealing with compounds, which modify the color of delphinidin".

 IS THIS RIGHT? SURELY SOMEONE ON THIS ROBIN KNOWS THE TRUE FACTS IF THERE IS REALLY BLUE IN SOME DAYLILIES.  WILL PIGMENT CONCENTRATION DO IT, AS SUGGESTED?

 Found in http://www.hartsdaylilies.com/genetics.htm

THINK ABOUT IT

Don't you just love double edge purple and white. This came from my JT-8068.

If people like you they will laugh at you jokes, if they don't like you they will claim to be insulted. You can't change that it's over there in Ecclesiasticals. It was put in there for people to get even with some body and not have to shoot them. Never try to explain why you didn't mean to insult them, they won't believe you and will choose to argue. When Noah's Ark first landed in Massachusetts, the people claimed to be insulted by the stinking boat and all the stinking animals  and what it would do to property values. Noah had to load up all the animals and strike out again. That's why the bible was written in Israel and not in Boston. That's about all I'm gonna talk about on that subject. There is no charge for this information, it's always free....Gotta go...tom

I read today where there is no blue in Daylilies. Is that really true? Seems like some blue to me. This is 3 different seedlings of mine. What color is this?..Gotta Go.....tom

JT-2012134...9 May

JT-2012134.....13 May
Same flower 4 days later. Young seedlings have to practice awhile to decide what they want to look like.

Yesterday a lady drove up wanting to know if I still sold my seedlings. I reluctantly said yes. Thinking all the time I don't have time for this. I told her they were now $10 a bucket (10 month old seedling) or 3 for $25. She ask," I thought they were always $5 a bucket".  "Yes Mame that was when gas was $1 a gallon, now it's $4 a gallon". As she got to the gate to leave, with her one Daylily, with a little prodding on my part. She told me, "I'm on Social Security and I have to save my money to buy a $10 Daylily". Yes'um I'm saving mine too, as hard as I can... "What are you saving for, you already have all the Daylilies in the world". " Mame, I'm saving my money to buy me a 2012 Toyota Tacoma truck, fire engine red, V8, 4 door, like your $40,000 truck". One of the rocks she threw up when she left almost got me in the eye. I ducked the rest......tom

                                                                                      

All three of these flowers are siblings. Daylilies genetics will always be a mystery.  Selected 16 today to be planted out of the water beds into the ground. This is three of them. So far this season I have selected 150 to be planted, about 1/2 way through with all the seedlings blooming. I planted approx. 600 double edge seeds.Why is this thing white around the bottom picture only?.....gotta go...tom