Hyacinths - what's happening?

aaron floden aaron_floden@yahoo.com
Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:09:43 PST
Jim,
 
 My experiences when I was just south of you in Overland Park was the same. Planted, flowered with one spike, and then slowly multiplying, but the flower spikes then reduced in number and density where I ended up with a weak looking few-flowered spike. Replanting fixes that as does fertilizer.

 Aaron
 E Tennessee, formerly E Kansas, near Kansas City


--- On Sat, 3/3/12, James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com> wrote:

From: James Waddick <jwaddick@kc.rr.com>
Subject: [pbs] Hyacinths - what's happening?
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, March 3, 2012, 2:41 AM
    Each bulb is sending up its single big bud, but about half 
(so far) have sent up a second  nearly full size bud 5 or 6 inches 
away and 3 or 4 small (pencil size or less)  shoots around the 
original main shoots.  In prior years each bulbs has made one shoot 
and a full head of flowers, only. Now a sudden multiplication and 
wide spreading.  Is this normal? Dos it take hyacinths 3 or 4 years 
to settle in and start to multiply? is it typical for them to spread 
5 or 6 inches around?




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