Planting tulip and daffodil bulbs now?

[BlackBart]

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Thats right they need the cold to trigger the stored sugar (for the lack of a better term). The sugar is stored in the bulb and taken in by the leaves, but if you can't plant them in the fall, spring will do.

One customer I worked for, bought hundreds of bulbs in the Spring, cheap from a commercial supplier and their gardening team (us under paid Horticulturists

) spend a week planting them all. Urg! They came up spotty but the next year they were fine.
Bulbs are truely one of God's amazing creations.

 

[Katy]

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Thats right they need the cold to trigger the stored sugar (for the lack of a better term). The sugar is stored in the bulb and taken in by the leaves, but if you can't plant them in the fall, spring will do.

One customer I worked for, bought hundreds of bulbs in the Spring, cheap from a commercial supplier and their gardening team (us under paid Horticulturists

) spend a week planting them all. Urg! They came up spotty but the next year they were fine.
Bulbs are truely one of God's amazing creations.

If she got them in before this last storm system came thru they'll be getting their cold temps. Even tho they didn't get as much snow as we did further south our temps were 2 this morning and I bet they were about the same.

 

[mamagardener]

I don't know about Kansas, but here the ground is so frozen you wouldn't even be able to dig a hole for them. Maybe you can try forcing them in the house and then plant them in the spring hoping they will grow back next spring. I don't know if it will work though. I have planted dafodils and hyacinths that I bought blooming in the spring and planted them when the flowers were fading, and they sometimes come back the following year.

 

[mamagardener]

I don't know about Kansas, but here the ground is so frozen you wouldn't even be able to dig a hole for them. Maybe you can try forcing them in the house and then plant them in the spring hoping they will grow back next spring. I don't know if it will work though. I have planted dafodils and hyacinths that I bought blooming in the spring and planted them when the flowers were fading, and they sometimes come back the following year.

 

[Bantimna]

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I agree

 

[conny63malies]

I deceided to plant them all in big planters this year and put them by the front door.