{"id":3033,"date":"2019-10-31T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/pal-question-662\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:39:55","slug":"proliferations-and-daylilies","status":"publish","type":"pal","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/proliferations-and-daylilies\/","title":{"rendered":"proliferations and daylilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I have a daylily that starts new plants from a flower stem. I have not seen this from any of my other 15 or so plants. Could you tell me what might be going on?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you say &#8220;starts new plants from a flower stem,&#8221; do you mean a new baby plant develops atop the flower stem (similar to a multiplier onion)? If so, this could be caused by the seeds sprouting in the pod, which does sometimes happen with daylilies. There is also a phenomenon Diana Grenfell (author of <em>The Gardener&#8217;s Guide to Growing Daylilies<\/em>, Timber Press, 1998) terms &#8216;proliferations:&#8217; &#8220;Proliferations are small fans of leaves occurring on the scapes,&#8221; [i.e., the flowering stalks] &#8220;usually where there is a node or bract just below the point where the scape branches. On some daylilies these proliferations can develop into baby plants&#8230;In theory, if the rooting part of the proliferation can be brought into contact with soil or a growing medium, the proliferation will develop into a fully fledged daylily genetically identical to the parent plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a daylily that starts new plants from a flower stem. I have not seen this from any of my other 15 or so plants. Could you tell me what might be going on? When you say &#8220;starts new plants from a flower stem,&#8221; do you mean a new baby plant develops atop the flower stem (similar to a multiplier onion)? If so, this could be caused by the seeds sprouting in the pod, which does sometimes happen with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/pal\/proliferations-and-daylilies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">proliferations and daylilies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[133],"class_list":["post-3033","pal","type-pal","status-publish","hentry","keyword-hemerocallis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal\/3033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pal"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pal"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}