I produced the first ever batch of Single Chinese Sacred Lily seeds about 10 years ago using pollen from various true tazettas. Many excellent big vigorous polyploid plants resulted, including…
Hybridizing
Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.
Fred Silcock Has Died
Fred Silcock, one of the world’s finest daffodil hybridizers, left this earth on February 7, 2019 after a short illness. Fred’s magnificent seedlings were not widely known because he avoided…
Optimum temperature for pollination
Dear All, Having never had any success with early pollination, last year my crosses were all blown away by the Beast from the East! So this year I have two…
First Flowers Downunder
This year most of the tazettas were planted early, shaded, and watered. In spite of high temperatures one seedling 14_05T has flowered earlier than any daffodil has flowered here. It…
Some little seedlings in flower just now
4529 maria x n. cyc. 4367 n. cyc. x n. calcicol 4277 n. ast. n. scaberulus 4365 n. ast. x n. scaberulus
N. hedraeanthus luteolentus x Fairy Chimes (tetraploid) and N. hedraeanthus luteolentus x (Ballygowan x N. viridiflorus)
These seedlings are flowering after three years for the first one and after five years for the second group. One seedling of the second group has a pollen fertility…
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