What to do with bulbs that don't have flowers.
Sujit Hart (Fri, 15 Apr 2016 04:36:20 PDT)

All,

Thank you for all the responses and advice. The flowers from the first
year were at the height I expected and so were the second year but much
fewer. Now the population have thinned with only healthy leaves. I will
experiment with some of the suggestions. Lifting some in the fall and chill
and replant in the spring and also fertilizing the rest in the fall. I will
report the results next spring.

I will put one of the Buphone in the ground.

Warren, I will try to call you this evening.

Sujit

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Nathan Lange <plantsman@comcast.net> wrote:

Hi Sujit,

With regard to your tulips not producing flowers, some additional
information would be helpful to accurately diagnose your problem. For each
tulip bulb that you planted, do you now have one large single leaf or do
you now have several leaves that seem to be growing from daughter bulbs of
the original bulb? Also, in the initial years when these tulips flowered,
did the flowering stems seem noticeably shorter than what you expected,
perhaps with the flowers opening down low among the leaves? Or, were the
flowers the height you expected? Did any plants come up this year or in
previous years with a normal rosette of leaves as if they were going to
flower but with an extremely small aborted flower bud?

As previously mentioned, there is no better source of Narcissus suitable
to your climate than Bill the Bulb Baron.

Nathan

At 06:17 AM 4/12/2016, you wrote:

I put in some Tulipa clusiana and some daffodils maybe three or four years
ago. The second year after planting they came back in the spring with some
flowers, maybe 70%. This year I only go one daffodil bloom. Should I get
rid of all the bulbs and plant something else instead, or is there
anything
I can do to get them to bloom again?

Another question is regarding my Boophone. I have had them for three years
now and they are sending out leaves in the fan shape this year (first time
it did this for me). They are currently in a clay pot with potting medium
that consists of 50% sand and 50% potting mix. I would like to keep them
alive until they will flower which is probably another 10 years or more.
How often should I repot them and is it necessary to increase pot size.
They are in the 8" pot now.

Thank you,

Sujit Hart
Houston, Texas
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