I am attempting to dig most of my bulbs this season. Too much work. My process has been dig, rinse off dirt with hose, dry on a rack in the sun for ~week, Once the roots are dried I clean…
Category: Growing Daffodils
Miniature Name
A few years ago, before COVID-19, I had a collection of five miniature not judged. When I asked the Captain of the team why was it not judged and I was told that the ‘Yellow Minnow’ 8Y-Y in my collection…
ADS National Show Newsletter VOL II
Friends, please see the Newsletter at this link from the ADS web server: National Conventions
Winter time
Selecting bulbs to chip, guidance
All, I plan on chipping bulbs this season and understand that single nosed, round bulbs are what to use. However there are some varieties where the only single-nose bulbs are newly separated off-sets that are definitely *not* round. But, they…
Breeding that does not come true
To the hybridizers out there. I you cross two daffodils and the resulting seedling bloom so that they don’t favor any of the supposed parents, do you still show them using the cross that you registered. e.g. you cross a…