Galanthus - Ebay digression 2012

[chasw]

Yes ,Joe showed pictures of it at last year's gala I believe

[johnw]

re: Yellow Trym

It does say "Er wird in den nachsten Jahren in den Handel kommen."  

Will be in den Handel = in the trade!  - in the next few years. Presumably with whatever name.

johnw

[mark smyth]

ill post a photo of the yellow Trym when i get home from work

[chasw]

Also a new one on me Thrumps

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Galanthus-Thrumps-/160720183710?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item256bab619e

[KentGardener]

At Gunter's German event last year Joe Sharmon gave a very interesting visual presentation to the traders one evening (followed by a scrumptious meal  and a charity auction  ).  In this Joe talked about his many years  of hybridising and back crossing of Galanthus.  The Yellow Trym was indeed as a result of his hard work over 2 or 3 decades.  

[Martin Baxendale]

For anyone thinking of trying to breed their own yellow 'Trym', it will take a while. Because the yellow gene is recessive, when you cross a yellow with 'Trym' the seedlings will all be green-marked. You'll then have to back-cross the seedlings with a yellow again, to hopefully get some yellow 'Trym'-like seedlings in the second generation. Allowing say 5 years from pollination to flowering of seedlings each time, you're easily looking at a decade.

Then of course you have to chip and grow on any good seedling you get, and chip and grow on again to get a reasonable number - say another six years. Then you need to trial and fully evaluate the garden worthiness when you have enough bulbs. Say another few years. John Grimshaw told me that Joe thimks you need about 20 years from pollination to having a new snowdrop ready for the market. From the foregoing, you can easily see that this certainly isn't far off the mark if you need to go through two generations to get interesting yellows. And it's not far off the mark even for single generation crosses if you're talking about trialing and evaluating properly plus building up a large enough stock to distribute it properly, and not just a handful of bulbs for sale a year but enough to satisfy demand.

It's a long-haul business breeding snowdrops!

[daveyp1970]

A cracking deal to be had here.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SNOWDROP-Galanthus-Spindlestone-Surprise-/260940266834?pt=UK_HomeGarden_Garden_PlantsSeedsBulbs_JN&hash=item3cc1407d52#ht_500wt_1156 they are selling on there web site for £25

[annew]

Not any more!

[Alan_b]

Okay, I confess, I bought one.  Sorry if I beat you to it, Anne.

[art600]

Too good to miss - a bargain from Harvey's is as rare as Hen's teeth 

[art600]

Just rec'd my invoice for 'Spindlestone Surprise'

It was a surprise - plant will be sent mid February and will not flower until next year.  Does this mean it will be sent after flowering?? or that it is not a flowering size bulb?

The descrition on EBay said This sale is for one bulb, and will be sent out "in the green".

Why wait until February

[Neil]

Arthur if you are in any doubt then cancel the transactionwith them,  because the listing does not say that it will be posted until the end of Feb, it says that delivery will be within 3 days.  So they are in breach of their contract with you.

[mark smyth]

sounds like twinscales.

[scatigaz]

Just e mailed Harveys about Diggory asking them if it will be delivered within 3 days and flower this year.

[art600]

Matter is resolved to my total satisfaction