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Narcissus and Daffodil

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Time to anthesis (days)<br />

250<br />

200<br />

150<br />

100<br />

50<br />

0<br />

9°C (time) 17°C (time) 9°C (length) 17°C (length)<br />

6 9 12 15<br />

Duration of storage (weeks)<br />

Figure 1.1 The effect of bulb storage at 9 or 17 °C for 6–15 weeks on (left axis) the time<br />

to anthesis (days in a glasshouse at 16 °C) <strong>and</strong> (right axis) stem length at<br />

anthesis for narcissus ‘Fortune’ (data from Rees <strong>and</strong> Hanks, 1984).<br />

Bulb drying<br />

Bulb storage 17 °C<br />

Cold storage 9 °C<br />

Artificial temperatures<br />

Holding temperature 0 –5 °C<br />

Glasshouse temperature 15 °C<br />

Natural temperatures<br />

Summer Autumn<br />

Winter<br />

Spring<br />

Figure 1.2 The temperature sequence during bulb forcing, compared with natural<br />

temperatures (after A.R. Rees, personal communication).<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

0<br />

Stem length at anthesis (mm)

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