Photographs and discussions about seedlings.
This year most of the tazettas were planted early, shaded, and watered. In spite of high temperatures one seedling 14_05T has flowered earlier than any daffodil has flowered here. It is a clear outlier and it will be interesting to…
4529 maria x n. cyc. 4367 n. cyc. x n. calcicol 4277 n. ast. n. scaberulus 4365 n. ast. x n. scaberulus
These seedlings are flowering after three years for the first one and after five years for the second group. One seedling of the second group has a pollen fertility of lower than one per cent. The others are infertile.…
Wednesday, Bob and I went to Ironstone to deliver posters for the upcoming daffodil show in March. After we returned, Bob gave me a tour of his daffodils in bloom. Here are some photos of Bob’s Blooms: Photos of the…
It seems to me a big part of breeding is the selection out of the seedlings – what are you looking for and does this advance things? I am wondering if we always get this right or even if we…
Seedlings from the first two crosses have two chromosome sets (CC) from N. cavanillesii, one (V) from N. viridiflorus, and one (N) from a tetraploid standard daffodil. Seedlings of the third cross have two chromosome sets from N. viridiflorus,…