Year: 2014

Fertility update – Div. 6

It has been a good year for seed on the narcissus/pseudonarcissus triploids, mostly crossed with tetraploids. Hopefully, in a few years, it will be clear how effective this policy is for producing fully fertile tetraploids. A sibling of Glenbrook’s Sad…

Fertility update – Div. 5

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The quest for fertile inter-sectional division 5’s is progressing very slowly here. The policy of putting sterile triploids onto fertile inter-sectional tetraploids is being pursued but very few seeds have been obtained. Mission Bells was very reluctant this year but…

Fertility update – Div. 10

A few interesting plants have set seed this year further confirming the potential of intersectional bulbocodium hybrids. There was an unfortunate mistake planting the 2011 seedlings. They were shallow planted because it was late and some had sprouted. The dry…

The German customs

This autumn I recieved 5 bulbs of Spanish Fiesta from Mitsch Daffodils for 50 USD and payed allover 209 USD waiting six weeks before the packedge arrived. The German customs needed about 100 USD for a phytosanitary inspection and I spent…