The seed corns shown in ‘Many seeds 1’ are not all I harvested this year. Indeed I got about 36690 from 201 different crosses. 26000 seeds were planted very close together, because my heated seed beds are designed for 10000 seed…
Many seeds 2
Author: Theo Sanders
Many seeds 1
The good and homogeneous looking seeds are from a cross of ((Royal China x (Assertion x Amadeus)). Normally there are no problems to get seed from such crosses of standard daffodils. More complicated it is to obtain seeds from…
Seeds
Thank you all for your informative comments concerning the seed production of Matador. I now conclude, that the temperatures are not high enough in Germany to get more seeds from Matador. I shall plant Matador later in autumn, then it will flower…
Seeds
I remember an e-mail sent some years ago to Daffnet, in which was written, that some daffodils set seed only, if they are planted in the preceding autumn (or spring). Can it be, that this is valid for Matador? …
Looking at pollen(3)
In December 18, 2008 I send two e-mails to Daffnet with the titles ‘Looking at pollen (1)’ and ‘Looking at pollen (2)’. I reported that some daffodils, which should be infertile because of their special chromosome constitution, were found to…
Photos from Spain 12
A little form of N. assoanus with a stem length of 11 cm and a flower diameter of 20 mm near Santa Magdalena de Pulpis on March 13. Theo