Need help with daffodil bulbs

I've dug up a bunch of these and want to wait until fall to plant them. Is that ok? Do I need to do anything special to the bulbs to store them? Thanks in advance.

Have all the leaves died off and the bulbs dried out?

If not put them in a pot with soil and leave outside to die off properly. Don't break off the green bits, tie them in knots or anything like that, this can quickly introduce infection into the bulb and take away the food source. When Autumn comes just turf out the pot and plant the bulbs. If the leaves don't get that time to produce food for the bulb you may find you have a clump of blind/unflowering daffs next year.

Gracious, I have so many bulbs, I'm not sure I have enough pots for all of them. Do they have to be in dirt? Is potting soil ok? Can't I just hang them up somewhere to dry out? The foliage is still intact, but the tips are turning yellow.

Thanks so much.

Dirt or potting soil it doesn't matter. You can try and dry them out now but the bulbs have worked their little hearts out all Winter and really do need that food to produce well next year, especially if they have already flowered. You may get away with drying them out now, perhaps someone who has done the same thing will say differently to me. I've always stuck them in the borders and let them die off.

Carla, if you want flowers next year, just plant them now where you want them to come up next year. Some may even bloom yet this year. They need the green and the sun to increase the bulb size, and make bubils.

"eyes"

HI Carla

I moved a bunch from my parents place last spring right after they bloomed and this year they look great, not sure if they will bloom still waiting to see.

I would plant them now where you want them and only cut the folage once it has died back.

Then in the fall put down bone meal and bulb food and they should bloom for you.

It's a lot more work to dry them out with dusting for bugs,putting in the pantyhose, and then possiblly forgetting them and not getting them planted. I have done that in the past and will never do it again.

hope this helps.

Mike

Ok, thanks for all your help. I've planted some and I've potted up some, but still have more left than I can ever put in the ground. There's also another "problem" and that's the fact that many of these weren't blooming when I dug them up, so I'm not entirely sure what they are. The bulbs look daff-ish (my new word), but the foliage, while long like a daffodil, has a light green-almost whitish stripe right down the middle of the foliage (a lot like the spider lily foliage, but much longer).

My reason for telling you this is that I'm not sure where to plant it when I don't even really know what it is. :) I would even trade them off or send them for SASE except that folks want to know what they're getting (usually). :) I need more pots and potting soil and then I can just leave them until next spring and see what happens. Then, I'll have a better idea of what to do with them.

Hey Carla

I would try some, LMK

Mike

WOW I'm amazed at the knowledge here re the daffs. if only the snowdrop suppliers would take note.
The 1000s of bulbs for sale in the autumn very rarely come to much because the bulbs have been allowed to dry out which stresses them.

I tell people all the time not to tie knots with daff leaves or bend then in half and put an elastic band round them.

Mark

Mark

I agree there are a lot of spring bulb suppliers who over dry their bulbs especially the small bulbs. I reckon in the big industrial driers there are temperature differences which means the buyer gets either a good crop coming up or virtually none at all. Can't beat buying in the green.

Smilin

I don't know what the bulbs with the white strip on the leaves are but if they were growing happily with the Daffs then they will grow where ever the Daffs do.

I'm just going to plant them in a less-obvious place and wait and see what happens. It could take a whole year to know what they are. :) That's fine. We should live here at least another year and a half.