September Narcissus 2012

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A few more photos.

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Hi
I have attached some photos of a very late flowering N. cordubensis (normally they would have been finished a couple of weeks ago). As you will see they are the stuff that confounds daffodil judges. To me they are quite plainly split cups that occur naturally. To some daffodil judges they are not split cup but just deeply scalloped. In any case, I have put split cup pollen on them because they are most of the way there already!
While the end of the season is in sight there are still quite a few jonquilla hybrids to flower. Quickstep parentage means we have lots of late flowering jonquillas and some very nice late flowering triandus hybrids. As we have quite a few fertile ones it is time to do a bit of hybridising with them to improve quality and the number of florets per stem. The are some miniature Div 8 seedlings yet to flower. The poeticus are flowering and will need pollinating. There are lots of N. triandus and triandus hybrids flowering. N. assoanus is just starting to flower and N. dubius is very late this year. The late flowering N. rupicola are just about to flower.We are starting to see the results of our efforts to extend the flowering season.

[Mini-daffs]

 
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The end of the season is rapidly approaching now.
The feature of this is first instalment is our giant NTT.

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Instalment 2. If you look carefully you will see one of our 8Y-O flowers and the mini 8Y-O in the same photo. Both are miniature but one is closer to a micro mini.

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Instalment 3. Late season is the time for breeding Division 7 cultivars. That is because a lot of the fertile breeding material has Quickstep as a parent or in its parentage and it is very late flowering.

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Last for the evening. As you can see NTT grows like a weed for us. From dwarf forms to giant forms.

[annew]

You're lucky to have it as a weed, Graham, I find it quite difficult to keep going. Nice y-o tiddler.

[vanozzi]

I like this new seedling, first flowering, very appealing with a good green throat and quite a small bloom.Hopefully it may be a tad smoother next year.

[annew]

I like the green eye, Paul, very nice. How big is it?

[vanozzi]

G'day Anne, it is 60mm.I wish I knew the breeding, but 2 moves since I collected the seed, alas records are no longer reliable.It may have come through the jonquils.Unsure if it will be fertile, so will be putting its pollen onto several wildcat crosses.

[annew]

Well worth using as a breeder, I think.

[Mini-daffs]

 
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The seasons end is not far away but our season is much longer than most peoples because of the quantity of different daffodils that we grow.
Here is Part 1

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Part 2. We have been doing Div 7 breeding for some time. Most of our breeding is aimed at producing small flowers. Most of the breeders here are intermediate sized. The most interesting is the one that opens 7Y-P. These are all fertile so they can be used for breeding all sorts of different combinations.

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Some of our poeticus seedlings. Some of these will be used to produce new miniatures as they are on short stems and even when mature are only 50mm. The ones with the all red cups are very desirable as are the ones with the full perianths.

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Some more photos.
The N. cordubensis is very late flowering. In the refrigerator I had the 11W-YOO that is very nice so its pollen went on to N. cordubensis.
The Giant NTT is how you get standard sized Div 5 seedlings with long stems.