Breeding down

The project of breeding highly bred modern daffodils towards miniatures is starting to yield promising results.

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This one started miniature but is now 60mm

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This little one is completely unexpected. It is a first flower and it is hard to believe it is truly miniature but it seems certain it will be at most a small intermediate.

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2 comments for “Breeding down

  1. To have smallness and good form is real progress Lawrence. Your work is remarkable.

    Dave

  2. Thanks Dave

    I’ve just tested Indian Maid pollen and the news is not entirely bad. It looks highly sterile, much less fertile than it looks, but a few grains do sprout. They are of variable size, so interpreting this in the way Theo Sanders does, you might get a rare fertile hybrid from it if you cross it with a fertile inter-sectional jonquil hybrid such as Limequilla. And you might get a rare fertile hybrid if you cross it with the cyclamineus/Bambi types i.e. the jonquilla disappears from the pedigree: – this might give you some color from Jezebel but I expect you will also get size, so getting color into miniatures by this means will probably take another generation or so.

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