I have been crossing daffs for the last four years. I use blooms not good enough to show for parents and originally had high rates of viable seed. However, I now grow the bulbs deeper and in larger pots and…
Category: Seeds
Chinese Sacred Lily (N. tazetta var chinensis) seeds…
Yes, you can look at all the articles coming out of China and elsewhere, on how hopelessly sterile this variety is. But, thanks to the wonders of significantly warmer temperatures here in recent years, and my discovery that with otherwise…
First Flower in Canberra
Hi All, The daffodil season has started here absurdly early. This new seedling is 98_22T x (Gold Stanza x First Stanza). These parents are all pictured in my latest online catalog (and there are crosses like it available as seed).…
A germination question
Many years ago when Wendy started growing daffodils I remember reading several articles which suggested that when making a cross between two cultivars, the choice of which to use as the seed parent and which as the pollen parent was…
Fertility update – Div. 6
It has been a good year for seed on the narcissus/pseudonarcissus triploids, mostly crossed with tetraploids. Hopefully, in a few years, it will be clear how effective this policy is for producing fully fertile tetraploids. A sibling of Glenbrook’s Sad…
Fertility update – Div. 5
The quest for fertile inter-sectional division 5’s is progressing very slowly here. The policy of putting sterile triploids onto fertile inter-sectional tetraploids is being pursued but very few seeds have been obtained. Mission Bells was very reluctant this year but…