Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

Forgotten division.

  Hi again  Daffnetters, Spent a few hours today, picking and bunching Erlicheer. Erlicheer  —  a  sport  from  a  tazetta, but in our N Z  show schedule  is  shown  in  the  multi-head  double class. It  has  little  opposition in the early…

taz

Hi  Daffnetters, The cool , slow season continues in central  N Z. I knew I wouldn,t have many cutflowers to pick , so continued up the line to Wilfred Halls to view the early Tazettas. Bees Knees  is one of…

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…

Soil/mulch/nitrogen, etc

1. Thanks to Keith Kridler for much level-headed discussion of soil problems and his experimentation on various aspects of them. This type of sensibly controlled experimentation should be supported by ADS, I think. Bill Lee’s problem with infertile soil after…

Trevithian S.JPG

Ok now this is Trevithian and again notice the pollen is dead or the bloom is past prime and the length of the pistil and the tops of the foliage are not burned back as will be more evident in…