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Feedback on New Introductions

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For those of us who are mostly gardeners and don’t breed or show their daffodils, I’m wondering if feedback on geographical locations and increase/decline of specific introductions might be of any use to those who are breeding and selling new cultivars? The recent comments on problems keeping particular favorites going suggests that some introductions are more ephemeral or have certain requirements that we might help hammer out by reporting on our experiences. I don’t think this is done in any formal way on daffnet, is it?

Debbie in Western NC

4 comments for “Feedback on New Introductions”

  1. I’ve recently suggested adding a section to Daffnet to indicate viability by location. I’m thinking developing a number like if you take a single bulb and let it grow for 10 year how many blooms would it have. It would also be by location. I.e. A single bulb of X that multiplies to 10 flowers in 10 years in Western WA could be Western WA – 10. Maybe some where else it would be a N. California – 16 if it is more prolific. I have some bulbs that just do not do well where I live and I wish I knew that prior to buying them.

    Bill Carter

  2. Bill, Deborah has just yesterday agreed to let me post a call on Daffnet for people to write to her about the success of their new-introduction bulbs, and I’m crafting the call. In this case,it would be only the good ones, the successful ones. I’ll keep you informed of how that goes–I have in mind an article for the Daffodil Journal.

    What you are proposing is a much larger project, and of course would have to go to Nancy Tackett for her to figure out how to make it work.
    Are you also familiar with DaffSeek? Be nice if there could eventually be Regional designations there, along with all the other good information.
    The only problem there: a region such as California has so many variables.

    Makes my head swim, thinking of the scope of this. Think about it, and see what Daffnet responses appear, and what Nancy says.

    Loyce

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  3. It would be nice to know these things before buying. Sometimes the parentage of the cultivar can provide a clue. I can’t keep ‘Daydream’ alive for very long, and I can’t keep the lovely ‘Altun Ha’ or ‘Lighthouse Reef’ alive for long either. Both are children of ‘Daydream’. Yet ‘Elixir’, also a child of ‘Daydream’, blooms beautifully and multiplies like rabbits.

    Mary Lou Milford, Ohio, Zone 5-6

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