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…
Category: Hybridizing
Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.
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…
Judging Miniatures
As a hybridizer is pains me with what I’m seeing on the judging of miniatures at some of our shows. I have seen miniature bulbocodiums listed in the show as N. bulbocodium 10Y-Y and I have even seen them listed…
2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show-Greenwich, CT Pictures
The 2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show in Greenwich, CT was open to the public on Wed April 20th, and Thursday April 21st. This was the first show in CT in three years. There were more that 1000 blooms at the show…
The future of the ADS
Start them young I say. Got my granddaughter interested in hybridizing at 3. Now that she’s 4 she is inspecting her seedlings and helping with pollenating again this season. Has a youth ever won a Carey E. Quinn Award? …