Hello, these bulbs have about 5cm shoots from forcing them the last couple of months. Is a north facing window fine for indoors? There’s no direct sunlight on that side.
Yes that should be ok - you just need to let the leaves green-up a bit in a cool room for about 7-10 days then you can move them somewhere warmer and they should be ready to flower. Make sure the compost is damp all the time. Once they start flowering they can dry out quickly.
Billericay - Essex
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Yes that should be ok - you just need to let the leaves green-up a bit in a cool room for about 7-10 days then you can move them somewhere warmer and they should be ready to flower. Make sure the compost is damp all the time. Once they start flowering they can dry out quickly.
Ok, so a south facing window with sunlight is needed to bring on the flowers? At the moment the outer leaves are increasing by at least 5mm to almost 1cm every couple of days! And the flower spike is starting to come through. Still on my north facing window at the moment.
Ok thanks. I hope so, just a little worried that the flowers may open before emerging above the leaves. It’s pretty cool in the kitchen so hopefully that won’t happen. I read it’s if the room is too warm that causes that to happen. The cultivar is Delft Blue.
The flower stem grows as the flowers open from the bottom upwards
Man you know everything 😅 that’s exactly what’s happened. Although I’ve discovered that when there are 4 in a pot it’s quite tricky judging how to turn them so all four grow straight… I’m gonna have to stake them.
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Make sure the compost is damp all the time. Once they start flowering they can dry out quickly.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.