How to Pollinate Daylilies – Simple Hybridising Guide for Beginners

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Discover how easy and magical it is to pollinate daylilies and create your very own unique hybrids. In this video, we walk you through the simple steps of daylily hybridising — from choosing parent plants, transferring pollen, and tagging crosses, to collecting and storing the seeds you create.

Daylily hybridising is surprisingly accessible: children around the world learn plant reproduction using daylilies, and many of today’s hybridisers come from completely different walks of life. If you can pick up a flower, you can create a new cultivar.

What you’ll learn in this video:

• How to identify the pistil and stamens
• How to transfer pollen to pollinate a daylily
• Why diploids and tetraploids matter
• How seeds form inside the flower
• When to harvest daylily seed pods
• How to store daylily seeds
• Every seed can become a completely unique plant

For reliable cultivar information and ploidy details, check: The AHS Daylily Database: Search “daylily database” online