Hello everyone, my name is Ross, and I’m new to Daffnet and thought I’d introduce myself. I live in central Alabama and have been growing daffodils for about 15 years. I found Daffnet while researching N. viridiflorus and was fascinated…
Category: Breeding
Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.
Tazettas by Bill Welch
I wanted to share the many wonderful tazettas supplied by Bill Welch in California, like him my favorite division is 8 and the division I mostly hybridize in. I have many unusual crosses in the works but only time will…
Summer census
By the end of summer 7 tazetta varieties have flowered: – two 8Y-O, one 8W-Y and four 8W-O. The first, 14_05T is quite nice. It still has a few florets in flower. Six days later 16_01T opened. Two days ago…
Chinese Sacred Lily highly fertile offspring
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 this one which is ridiculously fertile! It closely resembles and…
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 daffodils in flower for a couple of day just crying…
Another bulbocodium hybrid.
Lawrence Trevanian made ‘Gold Step’ a cross of ‘Alfriston, 2Y-R, by N. bulbocodium. This cross is fertile. I think Lawrence once told be that he had doubled the number of chromosomes to restore fertility. I made the first hybrids with…