Category: Breeding

Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.

Species Daffodils

I’m still using the 2011 ADS Daffodils to Show and Grow for names and classification of species daffodils.  It has a very good list to include the natural Interectional hybrids listed with an x in front of the name.  I…

How long can you keep frozen pollen viable??

I’m a pollen collector.  l collect pollen from my garden, but when I go to shows I try to collect pollen from some of the best show blooms.  I store in gel capsules and keep in the freezer.  Typical storage…

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…

Bubs dug

I’ve now dug all the bulbs that I will be digging this year.  After a couple of weeks drying I will be the cleaning and sorting.  The sorting will be difficult this year as I am bound and determined to…

N. rupicola

I’m looking for a source for N. rupicola.  Does anyone have N. rupicola that I can buy? I did a stupid thing last year that took out my N. rupicola.  In the summer I dumped a truck load of top…