Category: Fungus

A good source about daffodil diseases

Fact Sheets | Hortsense | Washington State University (wsu.edu)   I’ve got a bit of Scorch and have plucked of effective leaves and sprayed with Bonide Fung-onil Multi-Purpose Fungicide Concentrate.  Lets see if it works. Good info from WSU.  

Basal rot treatment

A few prized tetraploid tazettas became infected with basal rot. I invented a treatment that successfully cured them. I am not scientist but a gardener and breeder of Narcissus who likes to try new things and experiment.   In the…

Frost resistance of narcissus

In the pdf text ‘Frost resistanc of narcissus august 2018′ I describe the resistance of daffodils to frost in a special case. Informations concerning this problem are sparse but important for many growers and hybridizers. Daffnet is the right place…