Narcissus September - December 2009

[Anthony Darby]

I am taking the children for a beach holiday for a week to C'an Picafort next Sunday (11/10). I will try to drag them out for an occasional walk. I hope the rain will have stopped by then?

[Ragged Robin]

Graham, your miniature poeticus seedling is gorgeous, the red cup one is novel but your photo is a little large so I can't see the whole flower 

[ashley]

After these wonderful and exotic beauties a far more common creature , but early: N. cantabricus cantabricus from Malaga.  
It's flowering for the first time with me so I wonder whether this behaviour will prove consistent.

[vanozzi]

Kees-re sowing daffodil min. seed.
Your weather conditions are cooler and wetter than what we experience here, but this is how I grew my miniature daf seedlings.I was sowing up to 1000 min seed and 7000+ stand seed (in Tasmania) yearly.
I use the polystyrene fruit boxes that are approximately 15 cms deep (they won't heat up like a 200mm plastic pot).The soil mix is quite sandy, almost to the point that if you were using premium packaged potting mix, I would be adding up to 50% course sand, similar to what you see sold as cactus soil.You may have to water more often, but the little bulbs can't be over watered and they may be left in the box for the 3-4 years to flowering without the mix collapsing.I also mulch using fine pine bark.
For standard daffodil seed, it was the same, except I would transplant them to the ground after their 3rd growing season and they flowered from 5-7 years.
This picture is of miniature daf seedlings sown in 2007. Oh--I have always sown my seed in Jan/Feb, except the year when Father passed, and so they went in June.
The first years to flowering may drag a little, but by sowing yearly, you no longer have to count but have a continuos crop of new seedlings flowering yearly.Much more exciting than only growing named cultivars

[vanozzi]

Graham, your miniature poeticus seedling is gorgeous, the red cup one is novel but your photo is a little large so I can't see the whole flower 

Robin, I think he does that with some of his more interesting seedlings, just to tantalize us 
So, to see the full picture, left click on the text below it, click OK in the box that opens (with the green dot next to save file).
Download box appears then.Right click on the highlighted download (in this case red cup poeticus sdl).
Click ''open'' and the full size picture appears.

As all these pictures are owned by the poster, you should then delete them.

Graham,I also very much like that seedling, especially the colour and the SIZE.Hope you get the anthers right in its offspring when putting back to other min. poeticus.Marvelous breeding !

[Gerdk]

Ashley,
This is very early indeed and a good flower!

I add some pics of Narcissus elegans here -  note the inwards curved petals.
It seems this is typical for the species because other plants in this Forum show the same characteristic.
Also I observed the color change of the corona - just the same as found with Narcissus miniatus.

Gerd

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great Narcissus Gerd !! Elegans is a really well chosen name isn't it ?? 

Ashley !  This must be a record breaking cantabricus ! 

[mark smyth]

I've just seen this thread. wow!

[Mini-daffs]

 
Hi
All it shows is I don't look at the images myself. Here is a smaller photograph.

[Paul T]

Gerd,

That is a beautiful set of flowers, and such glorious pictures.  Wow!!

[Ragged Robin]

Thanks Graham - lovely Narcissus poeticus red cup, a real hit 

[Ragged Robin]

Really lovely daffs with beautiful shapes and well photographed to show them at their best, thanks Gerd and Ashley 

[Anthony Darby]

Gerd, you are doing well with your autumn daffs. Must try to mimic your conditions?

[Lesley Cox]

These autumn-flowering species are very beautiful. I'm not aware of any in New Zealand except a few N. viridiflorus. Maybe Bill D. in Tauranga has some. I think that here in the south of the country we may not get hot enough summers to ripen the bulbs. Must get a small glasshouse.

[Lesley Cox]

The poeticus are lovely and so are the delicate pink cups.