- 1). Decide which of your daylily plants to cross. For a beginner, the best policy is to experiment with plants that you like. Be aware that there is no guarantee that the best traits of both flowers come out in the offspring; it may look completely different. Not even self-pollinating the plant guarantees a particular feature or trait.
- 2). Clean an artist's paintbrush with soap and water. Find the stamens on one of the flowers you want to cross. There are six of them sticking out of the center of the bloom, and they have the pollen on the end. The pistil, by contrast, does not have pollen. In the morning, just after the flowers have opened, apply the paintbrush to the pollen on the stamens.
- 3). Hold the pistil of the plant you want to pollinate with a pair of tweezers. Rub the paintbrush on the pistil and wrap a cap of aluminum foil over the pistil. Leave it there until a seed pod begins to form at the base of the bloom. If the cross is not successful, the bloom just falls off with no seed pod.
- 4). Remove the seed pod after six weeks, when it has ripened, dried and cracked open at the top. Place it in a plastic bag. You can store it in the refrigerator until you are ready to plant it.
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