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Daffodil offsets

pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
edited August 2021 in Plants
Hi. I’m preparing some daffodil bulbs that have been in pots for planting out. Some of them have lots of offsets. I’ve read somewhere that this might be caused by planting too shallowly. However, I always plant bulbs at a depth that’s at least three times their height.

What should I do with them:
- plant them as they are,
- plant offsets separately to bulk up for flowering in a couple of years,
- discard the offsets and only plant the larger bulbs?

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Plant them as they are so you get a decent clump of them. The production of new bulbs like that has little or nothing to do with the depth of planting, it is more to do with the amount of food available to the bulb. The better the soil the more offsets there are. That is the way the plant spreads itself in the wild, as well as by seed.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thank you, @Palustris. I shall plant them as they are, though I’ll be risking getting lots of leaves and few flowers, at least for the first year.
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