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put them back in soil or store/save them till it is
time for bulds inautumn. >>
carefull with this practice, if you are absentminded
like me.. :) I was thinning 10 years of neglect (don't
ask), and well logically I thought.......... I laid
them out to dry.. In the sun..... and well they
started disappearing.. It wasn't that I couldn't
figure out where they went (squirles) but how I could
have done something so bloody stupid!!!!!!!!!
Well I guess my gardening should be called feeding the
masses....
Anji
-- Counting marigolds every time I come or go....
Blood meal seems to be working.....
--- Penny Nielsen
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Most of my daffodils came up "blind" this year. I plant them into the
ground in pots so that I can dig up the pots when the flower dies and
move the pots someplace out of sight until the foliage is done gathering
its energy for next year.
Any idea why they came up blind? Also, are they done for then or might
they bloom next year if I do something differently?
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Linda in Longview, WA
lindaj@teleport.com
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They're probably done for this year, if there are no blooms in sight for the
most part.
Too crowded and in need of dividing, perhaps? New soil, with some nice
fertilizer as a side dish might help them gain the energy they need.
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsett@blueriver.net
Weeds have rights too.
I have double-flowered daffodils that do this. I've always understood it to
be caused by a frost at just the wrong time while the buds are still
forming. Could be; it doesn't ever happen to any of the single flowered
ones though.
Every few years they will bloom okay, so I don't think yours are done for.
I keep meaning to dig mine up and put in something more dependable but I
never get around to it.
Cyndi Johnson
Zone 8 - in the high desert. "Weed a little, water a lot, plant seeds, weed
again..."
http://www.gardenlist.com More gardening catalogs than you could ever
imagine!
Do you mean there were no blooms or that the blooms "blasted" (which is what
I think Cyndi is describing-the buds kind of shrivel into a papery husk and
that is true of certain double varieties in warmer climates). I am guessing
you had no blooms at all and it is because the pot-grown bulbs didn't get
enough nutrients to build new flower buds. I would make sure they got
plenty of fertilizing, water, and sun while you are growing on the foliage.
I have had potted bulbs bloom the next year, but not as well as ones grown
in the ground for the growing season.
Debbie in Williamsburg, VA
Bannerman
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 12:04 PM
To: GARDENS@lsv.uky.edu
Subject: Re: daffodils -- OOOoop's
Most of my daffodils came up "blind" this year. I plant them into the
ground in pots so that I can dig up the pots when the flower dies and
move the pots someplace out of sight until the foliage is done gathering
its energy for next year.
Any idea why they came up blind? Also, are they done for then or might
they bloom next year if I do something differently?
Johnson wrote:
If you haven't dug them up for a few years, they could be overcrowded. I did
mine every three years or so and that usually takes care of the no-bloom
problem.
Carol
Virtually Gardening
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/virtually_gardening
I mean they never even developed a bud. Overcrowding could, indeed, be the
culprit. Plus, I don't think I fed as well last summer. I'll replace to soil
and feed and separate this year and try again.
Deborah Green wrote:
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"I would like to be able to fly if everyone else did, but otherwise it would be
kind of conspicuous!"
-- 12 year old, quoted by David Riesman
Linda in Longview, WA
lindaj@teleport.com
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