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Hey now it's Chris Fifo, your Darwin Perennials product representative and Darren Barshaw your other Darwin Perennials product rep, and we are here at GetGroup Nursery in Union, Illinois, in early May.

Why are we here, Darren?

We're here to show you how to receive your bareroot DayScape Daylilies and inspect them.

So why are we so excited about these?

We are so excited about these.

This is a breeding breakthrough.

So these are rust resistant.

It's going to bring the Daylilies back to the southern market.

But they're early flowering and they continuously flower.

They self-clean so you don't get all the seed heads.

Great plants.

So here in Chicagoland they're starting to bloom right about now, about the middle of May, and we know these will continue to send up flowers all the way into November or until we get a really good freeze.

So very interesting.

This is how we're receiving them.

Is this it, Darren?

I mean this is how we get them?

That's normal; that's how they're packed.

Normally you pack it in packing wood chips or peat moss.

That's to help retain them and they're going to be in there for a long time and they're going to keep moisture on the roots which you want to have.

You don't want to be desiccated and dried down.

I've already done some inspecting on them but what we're looking for is firm roots.

The crown is very firm as well.

They don't have any surface mold on there and if there was any that would be okay.

You could do a xeritol dip if the roots were dry.

You could you could submerge them in water for five to ten minutes to get them turgid and ready to go it.

Looks like they trimmed these up really nicely for us, too, because I remember some Daylilies in the past were like super long.

We had to put them in the pot and they were wrapped around.

So can we trim them if we feel like it?

Or if we do get some of those in is it okay to trim roots?

It is okay to trim but these are pre-trimmed.

It makes it easier, more efficient to plant and it also stimulates new root growth.

Okay, and so these are pretty chilly.

What if you know, say, I'm buying these in maybe February / March.

What if they come in frozen?

If they come in frozen you're going to want to get them into a dark area with 50 to 60 degree temperatures.

Let them thaw overnight so you're not tearing the roots apart when they're frozen this way.

If they're thawing out you can pull them apart easily and get them planted.

Okay, so don't get in a hurry you know this is a really nice product.

Don't be rushed to plant them the first day.

These are going to be fine stored for a few days and you know cooler temperatures like Darren said they should be good to go.

And so all right, any pre-plant treatments?

We kind of covered that.

I always did a little bit of a like a root shield type thing, you know.

It made me feel better at least before planting.

It's like an insurance policy.

Yeah, that's why, so these are just available as number ones right?

Division, we're going into a two-gallon because this is a premium item.

We have to remember that it's a premium item so this is not a quart.

It is not a quart.

This is a gallon and a half to two gallon.

Okay, all right, so how do we go about potting this up then?

So we got a two gallon pot here.

We've got it filled three quarters of the way full of soil already or media.

I'm gonna get this down here Darren.

This media we're gonna plant it about crown level and again you're gonna get more fans developed.

These are fans; you're gonna get some more fan development coming out of the crown as well.

So these number twos already have, looks like, two fans.

These number ones have two hand breaks here.

Oh, I see: more eyes down there.

You're gonna get more eye development as they grow on and so that's right at the level we want to plant those.

Maybe with those eyes just below the soil level.

The soil level.

Exactly.

All right.

Leave a reservoir for water again about a half inch to three quarters of an inch.

Make sure that soil is packed down in there nice and well.

Get the air pockets out.

Great job, Darren.

We're ready to go.

Just all the other coffee bean am I getting everywhere.

Ready to go.

Just brilliant.

So questions you might be worried about.

We got a great customer with you, Darren, to stick the first pack.

I have more accustomed to sticking cuttings, right?

So we get Darren to stick these here.

Looks fantastic.

Looks pretty no-brainer to me.

What about fungicides?

I know some of those older types of Daylilies should I be concerned about that much with these?

I would still do as an insurance policy.

A tall drench would be great just to do a one time -- one and done -- and then we're ready to put them out on our pad to grow these on.

All right sounds pretty straightforward.

You know, light feeders generally, medium feeders once these start and the fans start emerging, getting some breaks.

You can add a 20-10-20 at about 75 to 100 parts per million or some controlled release fertilizer.

Otherwise, set them out in the nursery.

Water them in really well by hand so you got water coming out the bottom and then if you have overhead watering, go ahead and turn it on after that and just watch them.

Let them grow.

Main thing is avoid the extremes.

Good wet-dry cycles, don't keep them too saturated.

Daylilies don't mind it dry at all.

And so fantastic summer performers, season-long summer performers with the DayScape and with these, I think maybe we'll come back in what?

Eight weeks?

Do you think we'll have some good performance on there?

I think we will.

Do you think we'll have flowers by then?

We could.

I'm shooting for a 10-12 week finish, but eight weeks, we're probably gonna have some scapes on some of these earlier varieties because they all will bloom a little bit differently.

It is a collection, not a true series, so you do get to choose your size and your timing and everything like that.

So we'll see you back here in about eight weeks to see how these are coming along.

I'm Chris Fifo.

And I'm Darren Barshaw.

If you want more information on Daylily DayScape, visit the Darwin Perennials website.