Category: Hybridizing

Discussion by daffodil hybridzers around the world, about daffodil fertility and breeding programs accompanied with many photos of seedlings.

Daffodils Blooming Today

This daffodil registered/introduced in 2019 just came into bloom.  It definitely brightened my day–which was a cloudy day with showers on and off. It has been very consistent.  

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 rain.  Other years start seeds outside.  This year I added…

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 flowered in 2019 for the first time. Theo