Promote a Seedling to a Daylily

Why do we need to Promote Seedlings to Daylilies?

• When we hybridize,
  • We start with two Daylilies (parents)
  • Create a Cross
  • Generate Seed
  • Grow and Evaluate Seedlings
  • Use Seedlings for future Crosses

In Garden Tracker for Daylilies, only Daylily (Parents) can be used to set up Crosses. But, sometimes we want to Cross a Seedling.

Promoting a Seedling to a Daylily Parent copies the Seedling information into a new Daylily Parent record.

How is a Seedling record promoted to a Daylily Parent?

• Log In to the Admin area (back end of your site)
• Go to Seedlings
  • Open the Seedling record you want to promote
  • Under ‘Seedlings Group’, Click on the ‘Bloom Stats’ tab
  • Change the ‘Promoted to Daylily?’ button from No to Yes
  • Add today’s date into the ‘Promoted Date’ control
  • Update the Seedling Record
• Go to the Daylily Parents list
  • If the Seedling you just promoted is not at the top of the Daylily Parents list, search for it
  • Open the new Daylily Parents record. This entry should have the same name as the Seedling that was promoted
  • Click ‘Update’ in the new Daylily record ** Important!
  • Edit the new Daylily Record (You can change the name, if you want to – the system has recorded the seedling name in a separate field.
  • If you make changes to the new Daylily record, Update again!

Images of the Seedling Promotion process:

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