Help with growing tulips indoors?

Hi, I just received some tulip bulbs as gifts. My climate is way too hot to plant them outside. The instructions say they can be planted in containers and in layers.

My question is: what size container for 6 bulbs? Or 12?

Any suggestions for keeping them happy indoors?

I think they'd love the winters here (it's been in the 70s in the daytime this week) but hate the summers, when 90s and 100s are frequent.

The general rule is that you can plant 4 bulbs to a 4 inch pot, 6 tulip bulbs to a 6 inch diameter pot, 8 to an 8 inch pot, and so on.

I hope your bulbs were pre-cooled, as tulip bulbs require several weeks around 38 to 40 degrees to bloom (as little as 6 or as many as 14 weeks depending on which particular tulip variety you're growing). This is usually done in a refrigerator (or a cold frame in colder climes), either before or after planting the bulbs into potting mix.

Assuming your bulbs are precooled, plant them in a pot with some well-draining dampened potting mix (part sand and part potting soil will do), with the root end down and the top shoot just at the soil surface. Water carefully and set in a sunny cool window and they should bloom in about 4 weeks. For longer time in bloom, keep your tulips that have come into flower in a cool spot in the house and out of direct sun.

Let us know how they do.

Thank you, this is very helpful!