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…
Month: November 2014
Fertility update – Div. 10
The German customs
This autumn I recieved 5 bulbs of Spanish Fiesta from Mitsch Daffodils for 50 USD and payed allover 209 USD waiting six weeks before the packedge arrived. The German customs needed about 100 USD for a phytosanitary inspection and I spent…
fertile tetraploid tazetta pollen
If any breeders out there want to make some fertile tazetta hybrids with regular daffodils, these should be ideal. Right now I have collected an excess of pollen from several clones of (Autumn Colors x my hexaploid conversion of “Chinese…
Narcissus romieuxii x Emerald Sea
Emerald Sea can be crossed with diploid and tetraploid bulbocodiums. Some seedlings of N. romieuxii x Emerald Sea are flowering in my greenhouse.