Dear Dave, This has nothing to do with your posting. I was just happy to see your e-mail address. I hope you're doing well. How's everything going? I heard the weather was unusually mild this winter and that daffodils are already making a run for it. Sally DaveKarn@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 2/7/05 3:36:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, bluberry@tidewater.net writes: > I hope someone will know if the seeds from Narcissus 'Albus Plenus > Odoratus' AKA N. Poeticus 'Plenus' will come true to type. I am propagating the > bulbs for Fedco a Maine company and am trying to find ways to increase > production. Cindy ~ While APO is a form of the species, N. poeticus, it is a mutation. In this form the reproductive organs have mutated to petaloids and, thus, don't exist. Having said that, there sometimes does occur in doubles a fragment of an anther attached to one of the petaloids. This pollen is usually fertile if placed on the stigma of a normal flower. It is unlikely that you would be getting doubles from the cross as the majority of the seedlings would likely be the single form of the species and, arguably, a hybrid. This particular daffodil must be increased asexually, whether naturally or by interventional means. One of the hallmarks of N. poeticus (forms and hybrids) is its very slow rate of natural reproduction. Dave Karnstedt Cascade Daffodils P. O. Box 237 Silverton, Oregon 97381-0237. email: davekarn@aol.com Cool Mediterranean climate with warm/hot dry Summers and cool/cold, wet Winters. USDA Zone 7-8 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php