Pre potted sprouting bulbs

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  6 February

  I plant my bulbs in pots in the autumn and then plant them out in spring. I try to get them in at something like the recommended depth even if it means burying part of the shoots, and they don't seem to mind. I generally don't plant them until the shoots are long enough that they won't be completely buried, and I'm sure I sometimes don't get them quite as deep as they should be.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Bilje Posts: 811

  6 February

  I planted bulbs, daffodils and tulips, in large pots in the Autumn technically at the correct depth for each but I didn’t have enough compost to fill the pots to the top. Over the last few weeks they’ve started growing, and showing leaf. I topped the pots up adding about 3-4 inches of fresh compost. They just continued to grow and have re emerged. 

  Soto answer the original question I’d plant the prespouted bulbs at the correct depth.
   Roll on Spring 

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  6 February

  Do you know if the sprouting bulbs have been "forced" into growth early, for earlier flowering?  If you can see a flower bud, or the leaves have unfurled fully, I'd be suspicious that this was the case - and if so, they might not appreciate being put into cold soil covering their new growth.  But if the "sprouts" are still short, I'd also replant at the correct depth.  

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• paulnUVW0RJpe Posts: 12

  6 February

  Thankyou very much for taking time to reply that’s all really helpful

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