Author Topic: Narcissus February 08 (Read 36643 times)

annew · « **Reply #75 on:** February 16, 2008, 09:32:59 PM »

Here a couple of new babies - 'Candlepower', 'Snook' (very like Mite) and 'Second Fiddle'

David Nicholson · « **Reply #76 on:** February 17, 2008, 10:57:10 AM »

Candlepower-Ooooooooh

mark smyth · « **Reply #77 on:** February 17, 2008, 01:21:35 PM »

Anne please show some close ups of the Narcissus

annew · « **Reply #78 on:** February 17, 2008, 04:42:59 PM »

OK - Candlepower followered by Gipsy Queen to compare. Then Snook, and lastly Second Fiddle....

annew · « **Reply #79 on:** February 17, 2008, 04:44:48 PM »

Hum, last 2 wrong way round.

fermi de Sousa · « **Reply #80 on:** February 18, 2008, 05:11:20 AM »

Anne,
glad to see a pic of Second Fiddle as I've just ordered it myself from Marcus Harvey in Tasmania. Errrr, the 2nd pic of it looks a bit ragged...? Possums?
Your cross of N. hedraeanthus and N. asturiensis looks absolutely cute!
cheers
fermi

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #81 on:** February 18, 2008, 10:24:32 AM »

I agree with Fermi re: the cross of N. hedraeanthus and N. asturiensis . I really must try and force some of the latter or store some pollen of the former?

annew · « **Reply #82 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:25:39 AM »

I wonder what the reverse cross would be like?

Maggi Young · « **Reply #83 on:** February 18, 2008, 11:58:08 AM »

BD says that when he has made both sets of narcissus crosses with other species, he has got pretty much the same results, whoever is the pollen parent...... always fun to try, though, isn't it?

Gerdk · « **Reply #84 on:** February 18, 2008, 06:54:34 PM »

I once found in a book (I have forgotten where)
The father (pollen) has an influence to the colour of the hybrid
and the mother an influence to the shape (height).

- but I never made a test to verify this.

Gerd

David Nicholson · « **Reply #85 on:** February 18, 2008, 07:45:12 PM »

Narcissus 'February Gold' from my garden today.

annew · « **Reply #86 on:** February 18, 2008, 08:16:18 PM »

In the RHS Daffodil and Tulip Yearbook 1956, Douglas Blanchard wrote that a seedling gets the perianth from the mother and the colour and flowering time from the father.
My Feb Golds are only 8cm high as yet! It stayed frozen all day today in shady places, yet I saw a butterfly in a sunny patch!

Maggi Young · « **Reply #87 on:** February 18, 2008, 09:38:05 PM »

Yes, I have read these words about, so to speak,"gene allocation" when hybridising... seems our daffs , though, have not

Anthony Darby · « **Reply #88 on:** February 19, 2008, 09:56:45 AM »

There is also mitochondrial DNA which is only in the ovule?

Maggi Young · « **Reply #89 on:** February 19, 2008, 11:46:08 AM »

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There is also mitochondrial DNA which is only in the ovule?

Well, exactly.... so why have we found so little difference???
By the way, is it mitochondrial or mitRochondrial, or mitrochondial

? One of those words which confuses me completely.... like pyroclastic $:-\$

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