Bulbs: Why aren't my pink daffs pink, 1 by Illoquin

Illoquin wrote:
Kathy Ann,

I just got back from the Indiana Daffodil Show and after going around the exhibits and pulling the pinkest of the pink daffodils for a semi-professional photograph (to be posted here later), we decided there really is no pink daffodil if we use a generic sheet of pink copy paper as the "definitive" pink.

It was the only thing I could find that everybody could associate the word pink with, but I wonder if a pink piece of copy paper isn't really running to the color purple on the color wheel, rather than a true light red (which is what pink should be).

Gemini Sage is right - there is no blue ithe genetic makeup of daffodils.

The pinkest daffodil I ever saw grown in the midwest was very pale pink, and appeared white from a distance, and the second pinkest one I ever saw was one called 'Applins', but it isn't common.

Here is a pic of Young Love, the pinkest daffodil picture I could find of commercially available flowers. Most of the pinks we saw today were the color (more or less) of 'Young Love', pasted below from:
http://www.web-ster.com/havensr/mitsch/garden.html . I think it is about $7.00 a bulb.

Suzy