Winter Narcissus - to early 2012

[ArnoldT]

 Narcissus Firelight Gold
Hybridizer: Walter J.M. Blom
Oregon, United States
Year Registered: 2008
sweetly scented.
 

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus cantabricus eu-albidus

Truly white

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus asturiensis x Candlepower

[johnw]

Arnold  - You must have one of the best collections in the USA. Super!

johnw

[ArnoldT]

Johnw:

Thanks,

I like them very much and have been able to get a few through exchanges with friends.

[fermi de Sousa]

Narcissus asturiensis x Candlepower

Arnold,
this looks like a lovely thing but how different is it from N. asturiensis? Did you raise it yourself so that you can show us the difference between parent and seedling? Or was it from someone else's crossing?
The crosses I seen of N. cyclamenius x Candlepower usually have a paler (or white) flower.
cheers
fermi

[ArnoldT]

Fermi:

The N. asturiensis x Candlepower was from Brian Duncan.

[David Nicholson]

As I've said before Arnold you really are having a good season, lovely stuff.

[ArnoldT]

David:

It also looks as if every bloom has set seed!

[annew]

That cantabricus is mouth-watering!

[Gerry Webster]

That cantabricus is mouth-watering!

Yes it is. Rannveig offered it at one time but I haven't seen it in her lists recently. I should have bought it at the time.

[JPB]

Arnold, how do you propagate all those cultivars? Only vegetatively? If propagated from seed they should hybridize like mad, wouldn't they.??

BTW, it is an impressive collection you have

[ArnoldT]

Hans:

I haven't propagated any of them so far.  Most are 1st or 2nd year plants for me.

Looks like a great seed set so I may have your answer in a few years.

[JPB]

OK, thank you Arnold. Are there others who can answer my question. How do you keep Narcissus species/cultivars from interbreeding when there are many different ones in a greenhouse and one wants to collect 'true' seed? It should be an hybridization orgy

[Gerry Webster]

OK, thank you Arnold. Are there others who can answer my question. How do you keep Narcissus species/cultivars from interbreeding when there are many different ones in a greenhouse and one wants to collect 'true' seed? It should be an hybridization orgy

I only have species & I find that they increase vegetatively at a rate which is good enough for me though perhaps not for anyone with a commercial interest. They do hybridise readily & some of the hybrids are attractive.