Opinion from daff. breeders please

Hi Rob, I’m catching up on my emails and have just reached your post (24 March) about seedling bulbs.
I may not have reached all the responses yet but I think I can add a few observations. The bulb on the far right (and possibly the one next to it) look as if it germinated a year later and is only a 1 yo seedling. In my experience, the later you plant seeds in the autumn the more of these you will get.
Some parents and crosses produce small bulbs with poor vigour. If you can recognise this in 2yo seedlings then getting rid of them saves you time and trouble. Some crosses will produce only a proportion of vigorous bulbs. If I think the cross is only passably interesting I sometimes discard the weaker bulbs. In open pollinated collections I have little patience for small spindly bulbs because I assume they are self pollinated and weakened by inbreeding.
Breeding jonquilla seems to be fairly pointless but I do have a couple of aims. I like prostrate leaves so I can pick a clump of flowers with a single grab. I also prefer bulbs that increase at only a modest rate so that they don’t need frequent lifting to maintain good flowers. So I grow jonquilla seeds and cull the bulbs heavily but here I use a different principle. I choose the biggest bulbs, the neatest bulbs AND the smallest bulbs in the hope of obtaining larger and smaller flowers. Obviously smaller plants will tend to have smaller bulbs and flowers and therefore be smaller as seedling bulbs.
I once separated out some very small seeds from crosses between standards to see if they would produce smaller bulbs. Alas no! This was a very small sample but I concluded that selecting out very small seeds was not a sure fire way of miniaturising daffodils.
Lawrence