Cultivar Name: Vorlon Organic Technology
Seedling Number: VESSTB3
Bloom Diameter: 4"
Scape Height: 32"
Branches: 4
Bud Count: 18
Bloom Season: Early-Mid
Rebloom: Yes
Color/Description: Burgundy petals with lighter petal edges, and darker black-burgundy band fading into bright red-orange toward throat above chartreuse throat on dark scapes.
Ploidy: Diploid
Bloom Habit: Diurnal
Foliage: Dormant
Pod Parent: Vorlon Encounter Suit
Pollen Parent: Samwise The Brave
Year Bred: 2015
Rust Resistance: A+/1 year
Fertile: Both ways
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Comments: Vorlon Organic Technology is a breakthrough in my work with diploids, but it was created just on a whim. In 2015 I had started to realize that Samwise The Brave and Misty Mountains Cold were vastly superior to most other diploids I had in most respects, but especially in thrips resistance (which is poor in almost all daylilies), as well as rust resistance (A+/5 year). Vorlon Encounter Suit has one of the most beautiful plants I have produced at the diploid level, and is an exceptional grower, but the thrips resistance is only moderate, as is the rust resistance. In 2015 I had started putting pollen from STB and MMC on lots of diploids with no particular concern about what the flower looked like. The particular cross that led to Vorlon Organic Technology was a cross I made one day just on a whim to see if I could increase the thrips and rust resistance levels in the Vorlon Encounter Suit seedlings (spoiler alert...it did). I had no idea that Vorlon Encounter Suit carried the dark scape genes.
I started the seeds from this cross in the late fall of 2015 and so they went through the last year of my rust resistance testing in 2016. I culled down to five seedlings that were A+/seemingly immune, of which Vorlon Organic Technology was one of those five. In 2017 as the first scapes began to emerge on those five seedlings, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I first noticed that one of the seedlings had black scapes. Luckily, it also turned out to have a burgundy colored flower that was strongly reminiscent of pod parent Vorlon Encounter Suit. This beautiful combination of dark scapes and burgundy flower with darker band and green to chartreuse to mustard yellow to orange throat bleeding into the dark eye with burgundy rays introduces a whole new look to dark scapes and opens the door to a lot of new types with dark scapes.
Vorlon Organic Technology is very fertile both ways, and two of this year's introductions - Vorlon Cheer and Vorlon Double Dealing - are seedlings of Vorlon Organic Technology. The branching is excellent and the plant is pretty. The increase is excellent and it does not show center die-out, allowing you to leave it in place for many years, or divide it as you want, because it has excellent recovery from division. The seedlings are beautiful and come in a wide range of colors and forms. Vorlon Organic Technology opens the door to a wide range of styles and colors with dark scapes. This stunning diploid has a lot to offer, both as a garden plant and as a breeder. Check out the images below.
