Starting Breeding Daylilies In Ecuador
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* Wide or narrow petalled. | * Wide or narrow petalled. | ||
| − | ==Strategy== | + | ==Breeding Strategy== |
| + | ====Rust resistant, reblooming and evergreen. ==== | ||
Almost every cross (at first) will be an F1 that combines evergreen foliage, rebloom, and rust resistance. The first crosses will be made in the US at Harmon Hill. Seedlings will probably be grown in containers in rust-producing conditions. Seedling selection can begin early because evergreen seedlings are usually faster-growing and rusty seedlings can be immediately discarded. With luck, some of the F1 might be good. When I get the parents to Ecuador, they can also be screened for rust resistance. | Almost every cross (at first) will be an F1 that combines evergreen foliage, rebloom, and rust resistance. The first crosses will be made in the US at Harmon Hill. Seedlings will probably be grown in containers in rust-producing conditions. Seedling selection can begin early because evergreen seedlings are usually faster-growing and rusty seedlings can be immediately discarded. With luck, some of the F1 might be good. When I get the parents to Ecuador, they can also be screened for rust resistance. | ||
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: Cross to 1, or make bridge plants. | : Cross to 1, or make bridge plants. | ||
| − | + | ====[https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0hvlwu4mi2syow/dip.txt?dl=0 Diploid parents that I currently plan to use in each of the 8 classes.]==== | |
| − | + | ====[https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnrsu7hhx8xndep/tet.txt?dl=0 Tetraploid parents that I currently plan to use in each of the 8 classes.]==== | |
| − | Evaluation might be very tricky. With no seasons, rebloom will have to be measured differently, perhaps by frequency. | + | ====Special Projects==== |
| + | * Bud building. Genesta and other dormant diploid builders can be crossed onto Sarah Christine, an evergreen bud builder. | ||
| + | * Rhyzomatious tetraploids. Probably not too difficult to produce using triploid fulva to pollinate tetraploids. Implausibility and its kids can be used too. | ||
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| + | == Evaluation == | ||
| + | ====Clump==== | ||
| + | I want tight clumps that shade the soil around them to suppress weeds, the way Stella De Oro does. | ||
| + | ====Foliage==== | ||
| + | Yet to be determined. I have no experience with distinguishing semi-evergreen from evergreen foliage. Nor do I know how foliage will present in the 3 different environments I will be growing in: tropical lowland Tena, middle altitude Banos, and cold high altitude Latacunga. Foliage looks normal in Tena, but no daylilies have produced scapes there. In Latacunga, scapes and foliage look normal on evergreen species-like daylilies, but scapes and foliage are short and stunted on my dormant seedlings. | ||
| + | ====Rebloom==== | ||
| + | Evaluation might be very tricky. With no seasons, rebloom will have to be measured differently, perhaps by frequency. I'll have to play this by ear. | ||
