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 >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >