Stoloniferous tulips
Jane McGary via pbs (Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:29:16 PDT)

I've set to work about a month early on repotting the bulbs that I grow
in pots (about half the collection). I've grown a number of Tulipa
species from seed over the past 8 or 9 years. I find that some produce
numerous small bulbs on stolons, typically in a mass of dried root and
stolon tissue around the bottom of the pot. Some of these species have
never flowered, so apparently they're using all their energy increasing
vegetatively -- not what I would like! Does anyone with broad experience
growing tulips have advice on how to encourage the plants to mature to
flowering rather than (apparently) trying to escape their pots? The
species in question are described in Diana Everett's book "The Genus
Tulipa" as being "strongly stoloniferous," so their behavior is not
really anomalous. And yes, I'm sending plenty of the offsets to the BX.

Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA

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