guess what daylily i just got???????????????????????????????

I'm sure there are a few threads over in Daylilies that explain this better than I can. For what I have learned, this is an economical way of producing many plants from one. It works fine for most species. Not so fine for daylilies for some reason. The first round doesn't change much, but when you use the offspring and then the offspring of the offspring, you have lost some of the traits of the "special" daylily you started with. Most obvious would be the colour and colour patterns. If its a real popular newer daylily, chances are, if you can afford it, your not going to get a real one. Depending on where you get it, some are close enough for most of us.

Thanks, Brenda. I had no idea. You'd think that peeps selling daylilies would volunteer this information.....perhaps some do.

Obviously i need to enroll in a plant genetics seminar. I always thought that tissue culture was expensive (rather than economical) but that it would be the same as a clone (therefore genetically identical to parent) What am I missing Brenda?

It's a method of cloning, I think, and economical, because they can make so many plants this way, instead of waiting for a plant to grow and be divided, or make offsets, you know like the natural way. Apparently with daylilies, the further you go from the original that you start with, something is lost in the genetics. Not like if I divide my daylily and give you a piece and you divide that one and give Shannon a piece and so on. TC works fine with other plants for some reason.

This is a good explantation.
http://www.cedarridgegardens.com/tissue.htm

That is an informative link; thanks, Brenda. Hopefully the nurseries that we deal with are forthcoming about this.

Shannon

I've been playing with TC for about 6 years Pam. with lilium. No luck. I always seem to contaminate in some way. I'l send you some in the summer though. We will have some at NALS in July.
Inanda

Thanks Ginny :)

Here is a picture of Strawberry Candy that was very likely a tissue culture that has degenerated. It should be pink but it is orangish . The form and everything is exact, it's just off color.

Sorry I wasn't able to get back to this thread last night but I found out I had a Hort Exec meeting. I checked it out with Golden Acres and their plants are first started from a tissue culture and then field grown from there. Kind of vague but it sounds like it is only tissue cultured the one time. That's probably the way it is for most commercial greenhouses.
Leigh, the owner of the greenhouse, will take some mail-orders within Canada but they don't usually do that. Here is what they have in stock:
Final Touch $16.99
Joan Senior $9.99
Moonlit Masquerade $9.99
My Reggae Tiger $16.99
Pagan Ritual $17.99
Mystery Black $17.99
Siloam Show Girl $11.99
Sabine Bauer $17.99
Rosey Returns $19.99
Eenie Fanfare $8.99
Cute as Can Be $17.99
Jean Swann $17.99
Purple d'Oro $16.99
Doublelicious $17.99

If anybody is still interested in obtaining these from Golden Acres, email me and I will give you her phone number. I just don't want to post it generally as I don't think they want to be inundated with calls.

You have mail, Brenda (Songbird, not echoes...lol :-)

Shannon

Spklatt, Lilypon, Oldflowergirl you have mail!
Let me know how it goes. I finally nailed it down to a few. Here's what I ended up getting:
Rosey Returns
Joan Senior
Pagan Ritual
Moonlit Masquerade
Siloam Show Girl
Final Touch
Sabine Bauer
and 1 TB Iris: Clarence (couldn't resist!)
This along with 86 daylily seedlings I have in 4" pots should keep me plenty busy!

LOL. Have a bloomin' good time, Brenda!

Thanks, Brenda. I can't wait to show everyone pics of my purple d'oros later! :-)

Shannon