Narcissus August 2014

[Lesley Cox]

Leave your credit card and cheque book at home, Lesley

What a spoilsport you are Fermi.

[Maggi Young]

Quote from: fermides on Today at 12:03:12 AM

    Leave your credit card and cheque book at home, Lesley

What a spoilsport you are Fermi.

That wouldn't help, fermi, the little bandit already has a pre-order at her beloved Hokonui!

( Enjoy the retail therapy, Lesley!)

[Lesley Cox]

That's correct Maggi and in any case, they've had my credit card number from way back! Having said that, I'll have to be very careful with its use for some time as on Thursday I picked up from the framer, a picture I've been having reframed at astronomical cost. It's worth it and the result is stunning so I don't regret a cent of it but it has brought my plant excesses up short for the meantime. Maybe I'll post a photo of it, with new, Italian, hand-made frame!

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
Lesley I have not forgotten your love of split cups so I have included one that is 60mm in diameter. I am sure you are going to buy a whole of them when you go nursey shopping!!
As I have said it is a very unusual year. It is a first for us to N. dubius flowering this early but it is beyond belief that we should have NTT as well. We won't be short of hybridising opportunities that are not the norm this year. I have been busy making use of N. dubius already.
We do lots of crosses so we are never quite sure what will pop up amongst our seedlings. A very unusual miniature jonquilla hybrid whose colour is very unusual. I have no idea what the pollen parent was.

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
A few more photos. I have found the new camera and lense makes life much easier than before. I am not stretching the macro abilities of the camera anymore with our tiny miniatures. I am sure you miss my blue backgrounds. They will back!

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi
Lesley I have not forgotten your love of split cups so I have included one that is 60mm in diameter. I am sure you are going to buy a whole of them when you go nursey shopping!!

Hi Graham,
I think this would be one of the few times Lesley will be glad she can't buy from Australia
I especially like that 6Y-W!
Here's the daff I have labelled as 'Mitzy' - now faded to the 6W-W it's supposed to be ....or is it? It's identical to the one Jon B brought to our last AGS VG meeting but Otto thought it was facing outwards too much (rather than downwards); any opinions?
cheers
fermi

[David Nicholson]

Fermi, there are more pictures on Daffseek of it pointing outwards than there are of it pointing downwards

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, David,
I think it is as labelled

Here's another look at a couple of the seedlings from the cross I made between Narc. bulbocodium ssp graellsii and 'Mondieu';
the third seedling is huge compared to a newly opened bloom of seedling#2 (pic #1)!
When it first opens there is an obvious kink in the corona (pic #2) but that seems to even out as it matures to about 5cm/2" across (pic #3)!
cheers
fermi

[Jupiter]

Can anyone help me to identify this narcissus?

[fermi de Sousa]

Hi Jamus,
Good ol' "Paperwhites" Narcissus papyraceus - although it could be a hybrid or selection,
cheers
fermi

[Matt T]

Just noticed that I have 2 pots of Narcissus showing leaf already!

Narcissus bulbocodium var. citrinus  and also N. albidus SF15.

I think this is a record for me. We've had some pretty chilly nights (temperatures in single figures) for the last couple of weeks, but daytime temperatures are up again. Those hours spent building the bulb frame over the winter have paid off, as it is doing an excellent job now and giving the bulbs the temperature gradient they need to trigger growth. The sand plunge is damp and many pots have put down roots but I was holding off watering for another week. Given that the plants seem to want to grow I may just do it now.

[fermi de Sousa]

Narcissus 'Turland's Gold' from Keira Bulbs
A Narc. triandrus hybrid from KB'
A "lost label" - possibly GBF's 'Bezzababe'
cheers
fermi

[annew]

Mondieu!! What are you feeding them on, Fermi!!

[fermi de Sousa]

Mondieu!! What are you feeding them on, Fermi!!

Not much! I usually add a few "organic" pellets or a slow release fertilizer when I repot in late summer. The ones in the ground get a water with liquid fertilizer once or twice while in growth.
I'm thinking of using potash powder like Ian Young does, but never remember when it should be put on!
cheers
fermi

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi Fermi
Turland's Gold is an excellent cyclamineus hybrid. Ours is more orange than gold and looking at your photos it is also more orange than gold. It is not one of our seedlings but a seedling of Tony Davis who lives in Bowral. Tony is an excellent hybridiser of standard daffodils although he does dabble in cyclamineus hybrids. Turland's Gold is relatively fertile so you should pollinate it with one of our miniature cyclamineus hybrids.