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 On Sunday 30 March 2008 the Garden State Daylily Club held its first meeting for 2008. It announced the Annual Daylily Day at Deep Cut Gardens in Middletown on 28 June 2008. All are invited. That is two weeks before our annual Open House. The details are in the hyperlink above.

We moved our seedlings to pots this weekend. We have been doing this the first weekend of April with success.

 

Note that we have them on planks and they are protected from west wind and clumped together. There are 100 crosses and there are 10-20 seedlings per pot. There are about 1,500 seedlings on these planks. They are fertilized with Osmocote, albeit it does not work until the weather is warmer, but for some reasons it deters squirrels. Also we spray it with a repellant just to be certain.

The area is about 18 square feet and we use 6" pots.

 

 

 

 

The use of the pots makes for better control and reduces the infestation of grasses. It also allows for higher density of plant growth. As we noted before it also appears to improve plant growth. We shall see this summer with our pots from 2004, 2005 and 2006.

The above shows how high density a growing area we can achieve with this method. Also one can see the number of seedlings per pot is quite high.

 

 

 

 

The pots from 2005 as shown here are demonstrating very strong growth. We will examine how well they do when exposed to the full summer growing conditions. Hopefully they can obtain adequate nutrition for growth and flowering for selection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 2006 crosses are also showing good growth. At this point they have been out for a full year. We are still seeing some freezing AM temps, albeit not killing frosts and all daylilies are growing.

Here we can see the 2006 seedlings and the density of seedlings per pot is much lower. Generally we see a reduction and we will measure this effect starting this year.

 

 

 

 

                                                                                          

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