Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

New viridiflorus hybrid

The first seedling of (( Pontresina x ( Edna Earl x Rashee )) x N. viridiflorus flowers in the greenhouse. I think in the next year it will have more than one flower per stem. The pollen is highly fertile,…

N. cantabricus from Spain x Emerald Sea

Here are the first three seedlings of this cross flowering in the greenhouse. It  is a great surprise that the first and the second seedling produce some sprouting unreduced pollen.      

Autumn daffodils

   The autumn flowers are now coming into their own. It is a late season this year. The picture is of  ‘Autumn Sprite’ a colorful miniature that I am using in my miniature breeding program. The corona gets its distinctive…

Damage of daffodils by frost

In an e-mail to Daffnet of April 9 I wrote that I lost many daffodils by frost. Now I have some further details, but the whole dimension of the damage is not yet to be seen, because I dig out…

Early Doubles.

Hi Daffnetters, Just along from the bright seedling, 07 – 7 , is the pollen parent used, Early Orbit , both photos. It is fertile both ways, seed and pollen.. It is a great market cutflower, tall, big heads, seldom…