The daffodils begin to flower outdoors. Theo
Hybridizing
Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.
Hybridization – starting seedlings
I’ve been starting daffodil seedlings for 10 years now. Some years better than others. I have started daffodil seeds in my greenhouse and then setting the pots outside to get…
Monsters
If you cross standard daffodils with tazettas you get sometimes flowers like the monsters in the pictures. The first three plants died during a severe frost period; the last two…
Possibility of intergeneric hybrids.
Reading about ×Howardara (a complex trigeneric hybrid involving species from Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, and Zephyranthes), as well as other intergeneric hybrids from the Amaryllidaceae, such as ×Amarcrinum, I was wondering about the…
Some breeding/fertility questions
I have a lot of tazettas blooming now and was looking through the pollen I collected last year to see what I might use for breeding. ‘Aspasia’ is my latest-blooming…
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