Blind daffodils
Last post 27-04-2010 8:55 PM by AlexS. 2 replies.
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27/04/2010 08:04 PM
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- Spud
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- 14 Mar 2010
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After a bleak winter, I was looking forward to the first signs of spring and all the pots which I had filled with daffodil bulbs would create a blaze of yellow.Alas, I had only one pot with lovely yellow heads and 6 pots with leaves only and no heads.Can anybody suggest what causes this, what I may have done wrong and what do i do with them now for next year?
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27/04/2010 08:33 PM
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- 07 Nov 2006
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I quite understand how you felt. A couple of years ago I bought three sacks, about 168lbs of mixed daff bulbs. Next season there was a reasonable show of blooms, quantity wise, but not quality. Since then, nothing just leaves. The journalist will probably come up with several answers. Personally I hold the belief that due to the now rapid expansion of the cut flower market, that the top growth is harvested without thought for the bulb. If the growth is suddenly destroyed, the bulb will suffer.
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27/04/2010 08:55 PM
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- AlexS
- Reading
- 06 Sep 2009
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I don't know the cause - I had a pot of blind daffs too, although most flowered well. My response would be to feed well now, and keep well watered until the leaves die down. If you can get them out of pots and into the ground, that would help too (the roots generally go much further than they can reach in a pot). As I understand it, next year's flower is being formed in the bulb now, before it goes dormant, so good growing conditions now are key to next year's flowers.
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