FORTUNE’S DEAREST, Mort Morss on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Mike
princess sofia FORTUNES DEAREST, Mort Morss on the daylily teeth blog

PRINCESS SOFIA, Gerda Brooker

It was the white teeth on this grape purple daylily that fascinated many daylily hybridizers.  What were the possibilities? As we’ve found out; Many! FORTUNES DEAREST (image by David Kirchoff, Daylilyworld) has become the inverted pyramid of white teeth daylilies .

Fortunes Dearest was registered by Mort Morss in 1994. At the time of introduction, 1997, I had just gotten interested in daylilies so I really did not know much about hybridizing. But my friend Steve Moldovan, Avon Ohio, had acquired the daylily and suggested that I consider using F.D.  Steve warned me that FORTUNE’S DEAREST was on the tender side which proved to be true for me.  Nevertheless it didn’t stop countless crosses to be made with this newcomer that made F.D. an instant sensation with many hybridizers. Today, it’s safe to say that a high percentage of any lavender to purple daylily white teeth daylilies goes back to FORTUNES DEAREST. Just looking at the database on kids from FORTUNES DEAREST, is a who’s who list of daylilies. MORT MORSS, JULIE NEWMAR, HEARTBEAT OF HEAVEN, PRINCESS SOFIA, ALAN LANE AGIN, HYACINTH MACAW are among the notables with F.D. in the background.

I recently spoke to Mort and David about FORTUNES DEAREST and they provided me with the cross and a startling revelation about Mort’s genius.  That will be tomorrow on the Daylily Teeth Blog.

Welcome Back 

Mike

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John Kulpa Seedling, Bass Gibson offspring on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Mike
basskid John Kulpa Seedling, Bass Gibson offspring on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Bass Gibson Offspring

John Kulpa offered to share his fine example of offspring out of a first generation BASS GIBSON cross. John does not know the pollen parent. I bet it was purple, Duh… , no kidding! I’ve never seen a first generation BASS GIBSON cross with this good of color.  Nice work John! Thanks for sharing on the Daylily Teeth Blog!

Mike

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John Kulpa Daylily Teeth Seedling, Heavenly Pink Fang offspring

Posted on January 17, 2011 by Mike

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Heavenly Pink Fang offspring

 John Kulpa sent over this image of a Heavenly Pink Fang seedling. The daylilies petals have nice saturation complemented by teeth on the sepals. Nice work John! Tomorrow an extradorinary first generation daylily cross from BASS GIBSON. It might be the finest example  bloomed yet!~… The daylily has color and white teeth…..

Mike

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Malcolm Brooker Jr. Seedling , Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Mike
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Malcolm Brooker Jr. Seedling

Gerda Brooker sent over this daylily seedling image from her sons seedling bed. It is out of MALCOLM DAVID BROOKER SR.  I didn’t get the full cross but it is interesting that it has a rose color to it. Nice work Junior. Gerda next time you talk to Junior, ask if if he’d share with the group the cross.

This  upcoming week, is open week. If you have a daylily image or two you’d like to share, send it over. We’d love to see it. You are also welcome to send in your thoughts.

Next week after the MWS, I want to move the conversation toward Southern Daylily Teeth. We’ve touched on FORTUNES DEAREST a little bit. But now I’d like to expand the discussion about its importance in daylily hybridizing. 

Mike

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Southern Bred purple teeth daylily seedling

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Mike
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Purple Teeth Seedling

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Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 14, 2011 by Mike
Rogue X Red Fang Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

Rogue X Red Fang

Hi Mike,

I’ve been following your TEETH blog for several weeks now…really enjoying your posts – nice history of teeth – and the discussion…

There are a few other sources of teeth that some of the group might like to know about…

ROGUE – Melanie Mason – has a lot of ‘spicules’ on the edge – Melanie’s intro, GYPSY ROSE is out of WISEST OF WIZARDS x ROGUE and when I crossed GR with P. Stamile’s RED FANG, I got some nice toothy seedlings – here’s the best one…

John Rice’s TRULY ANGELIC x RED FANG produced several nice toothy seedlings…

Truly Angelic x Red Fang Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

Truly Angelic x Red Fang

Truly Angelic x Red Fang2 Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

Truly Angelic x Red Fang2

Finally, Elizabeth Shooter’s PLAYING WITH SHARKS is a fine plant with great branching and also is dormant – it has 5” wine red blooms with lots of tiny sharks teeth – crossed onto FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN, I got a lot of strange colors, most in the rosy/mauve range – but also, lots of teeth.

FLR x Playing With Sharks Mike Darrow seedlings, Daylily Teeth Blog

FORESTLAKE RAGAMUFFIN x PLAYING WITH SHARKS

Mike Derrow,
Adena Daylilies

Thanks Mike, we sure do appreciate the nice seedling images and crosses. Thanks for sharing ,

Mike…

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WIDE AWAKE, by Dave Mussar on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Mike
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Wide Awake

Wide Awake

Wide Awake was the last of Brother Charles’ cultivars to be released by Song Sparrow and may be the pinnacle of his hybridizing efforts.  In time I suspect that Wide Awake may rival Ruffled Strawberry Parfait for its impact on hybridizing for teeth!

In the 2000 Song Sparrow catalogue 5 previously unreleased Reckamp cultivars described as the “…his crowning glory achievements from his 30 plus years of hybridizing hemerocallis” were exclusively offered for donations to the Childrens Brittle Bone Foundation a favoured charity of Brother Charles.  These included Wide Awake and Charlies Dream ($10,000), Angels Realm ($7,500) and Charlie and Garden Symphony ($5,000) each.  Wide Awake was the last of this group to be released I believe in 2007.  This catalogue shows Wide Awake as (BC92-02) with a parentage of (Garden Symphony x BC91-20).  The same page shows Charlies Dream to be (BC91-20) from the cross of (BC84-23 x Pastel Prelude).  So Charlies Dream would be the seedling parent of Wide Awake! The AHS registration database shows the seedling numbers for Wide Awake and Charlies Dream to be reversed but I suspect that the catalogue is correct given the dates on the seedlings in the parentage.

My image of Wide Awake shows a rose pink colour that can get much darker in tone. See the image on the Song Sparrow website.  The picture of Garden Symphony was taken in Curt Hanson’s garden a few years ago and you can see the extensive ruffles and a few teeth popping there. 

I’ve been breeding with Wide Awake for a few years now and have been intrigued with some of its kids.  Crossed with toothy cultivars not surprisingly produces more teeth.  Even more interesting are the teeth you can see in this seedling with Wide Awake crossed on to Women Seeking Men – a non-edged cultivar!  This was a short cross and may have been the only edged seedling in the bunch.  I have other toothy kids out of Wide Awake (and from Garden Symphony) in crosses with non-edged cultivars. Nothing has been registered out of Wide Awake to date and it is the only kid registered out of Garden Symphony.

 I know that Joel Thomas Polston has started to use Wide Awake as well which should tell us all something!  I honestly think that in time Wide Awake may prove to be an even better parent than Ruffled Strawberry Parfait! 

With this, I think I’ve shared all I can say about the contribution of Brother Charles’ lines to toothy breeding.  I hope you have found it interesting and thought provoking.  It’s been fun!  All the best. 

Dave Mussar, Puslinch, Ontario

WSM x WAklg11 WIDE AWAKE, by Dave Mussar on the daylily teeth blog

WOMEN SEEKING MEN x WIDE AWAKE seedling

 

Garden Symphonylg11 WIDE AWAKE, by Dave Mussar on the daylily teeth blog

Garden Symphony

 

Thanks to Dave for his series on Brother Charles Reckamp. Dave is an excellent speaker and I recommend him if you are looking for a group presentation. This weekend we’ll look at a few seedlings and not think to much on the Daylily Teeth Blog…

Mike

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Heavenly Pastel, Brother Charles Reckamp, on the daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Mike
HeavenlyPastel1lg Heavenly Pastel, Brother Charles Reckamp, on the daylily teeth blog

Heavenly Pastel

Heavenly Pastel 

Heavenly Pastel (Reckamp-Klehm, 1993)is a Reckamp cultivar that few people know that I believe has good potential for toothy breeding.  This one bears a 1993 seedling number (BC93-39) so it presumably bloomed and was selected before Ruffled Strawberry Parfait (BC93-52)that year.  To date there have been no kids registered out of Heavenly Pastel and I’m not sure when it was first offered for sale despite its registration year.

Heavenly Pastel is a little 4″ very waxy, orchid pink pastel blend that has horns or tusks on its gold edge.  I just love the flower but my plant remains around 3 or 4 fans after having it for 5 years or more.  It is both pod and pollen fertile.  Most of my crosses with it have been with gold edged cultivars and I’ve only made a few limited crosses with toothy cultivars.  The seedling attached crossed with pollen from Annette’s Magic (Ed Brown × Forestlake Ragamuffin) shows a definate toothy edge that might be more dramatic in a warmer zone. 

There were 7 Reckamp cultivars registered in 1993, 5 in 1994 , 1 in 1996 and then none until 40 were registered in 2003 including some that were previously released.

Clearly there was some catching up on the registration process in 2003! In fact one was registered in 2008 that was previously released and missed. 

The last 5 selected cultivars by Brother Charles bear 1995 seedling numbers.  Brother Charles passed away in May 1996 at the age of 91 after battling skin cancer for 10 years so he did not get to see his seedlings that final year.  This should remind us all to wear sun protection when working long hours in the garden.  Those last 5 selects were registered in 2003 and include Harvest Moth, Good Morning Beautiful Day, Hallelujah Joy, Royal Honor and She’s Got Legs.  All of these are good tall plants that show the occasional tooth and have barely been used for breeding.  Some of these are relatively narrow so could be used in toothy UF programs.

Next Up – Wide Awake on the daylily teeth blog. 

Dave Mussar, Puslinch, Ontario

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HeavenlyPastel x AnnettesMagic

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More images: Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding and Wild Hair

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Mike
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Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding

Photos used with permission, Dave Mussar

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Wild Hair

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RUFFLED STRAWBERRY PARFAIT, Dave Mussar on the Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Mike
Ruffled Strawberry Parfait RUFFLED STRAWBERRY PARFAIT, Dave Mussar on the Daylily Teeth Blog
Ruffled Strawberry Parfait

Ruffled Strawberry Parfait

Without question Ruffled Strawberry Parfait is turning out to be Brother Charles’ greatest contribution to toothy daylily breeding to date.  It was selected as a seedling in 1993(seedling number BC93-52), was released by Song Sparrow in 2001 but only registered with the AHS in 2003.  This cultivar was different in that it had actual shark’s teeth versus the tendrils and fringing that seemed to be coming out of his lines.  Further Ruffled Strawberry Parfait shows more pink-lavender colour than was typical for most of his introductions. We are just starting to see the breeding potential of Ruffled Strawberry Parfait.

Currently the AHS database shows 11 first generation kids out of Ruffled Strawberry Parfait, 7 of them by Joel Thomas Polston and 1 each by four other hybridizers including Curt Hanson, Herbie Phelps and Jamie Gossard.

 Probably Joel’s most dramatic introduction was his 2008 Wild Hair (Search for WILD HAIRS) on site search, a cross of Ruffled Strawberry Parfait x Forestlake Ragamuffin.  His Lady Stephanie Victoria Redding (2008) has dramatic colour and edge and is proving in itself to be a great breeder. Joel told me that his seedling that won the King of the Hill contest recently is out of Lady Stephanie breeding.  Did you see the teeth on that one!! I’ve had Ruffled Strawberry Parfait since 2002 and kick myself for not using it more, especially in toothy crosses.  One challenge I’ve had is that it is one of the last to bloom in my garden often not until mid-August or later when there isn’t much to cross it with. I’ve learned to freeze the pollen so I can use with earlier blooming toothy cultivars. Joel has about a dozen future intros coming out of Ruffled Strawberry Parfait and is still using it heavily.  While it may never catch up to Angel’s Smile in terms of the number of progeny I expect that in a short while that it will become the second most widely used Reckamp cultivar ever and that we will see many more exciting toothy cultivars from this fabulous breeder.

Dave Mussar

Puslinch, Ontario

Note from Mike: The King Of the Hill Contest was sponsored by Cary Petterson’s mydaylilies.com  Mick Morry was the administrator of the contest. It was voted on by site members.

More from Dave tomorrow…

Mike

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Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe, Brother Charles Reckamp, Daylily Teeth Blog

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Mike
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Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe

Part 5 – Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe 

Now Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe (Reckamp-Klehm, 1989) may be a cultivar you may not know but if you are interested in narrow toothy forms you may want to consider it.  There is no parentage registered for this cultivar but Brother Charles used his lines exclusively from about the mid-70′s so it will be all his genetics.  I was drawn to this cultivar by reports that Brother Charles favoured it for its strong branched scape and high bud count.  Curiously it has been little used in hybridizing with only 3 registered kids from it – 2 by Vic Santa Lucia in 2000 and the other by Gary Schaben in 2007.

 I have used this cultivar a fair bit mainly with narrower formed flowers and not necessarily with toothy cultivars.  A cross with Julie Newmar produced several toothy cultivars, the one pictured (look in the previous post for image)here was the most dramatic.  Others in this cross showed more colour with some but fewer shark’s teeth.  A cross with it as a pollen parent to Forestlake Point Lace (which in my opinion is a better plant, better grower, with clearer colour and only marginally fewer teeth than the more famous F. Ragamuffin) (look in the previous post for image)as a pollen parent showed teeth on all seedlings from this cross.

Most Reckamp cultivars are in the polychrome colour range and will readily take on colour in a cross.  As we move into some of the more recent Reckamp cultivars you will find that most of them have been hardly used in hybridizing.  In my humble opinion this is a vast array of unexplored line-bred, northern hardy plants that clearly carry the genetics for good edges and teeth. 

Dave Mussar

Puslinch, Ontario

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Dave Mussar teeth seedlings, Julie Newmar, on the Daylily teeth blog

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Mike
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Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe x Julie Newmar

 

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Forestlake Point Lace x Ruffled Bouquet Deluxe

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