My tulips are sprouting!

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My tulips are sprouting!
Topic Started: Mar 1 2015, 01:02 PM (228 Views)
Kahu	Mar 1 2015, 01:02 PM Post #1
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	I got a real shock this morning when I discovered my tulips are sprouting at the hottest and driest time of the year. I know I planted them at an odd time in the year after returning from our trip to Canada ... they had been sitting in the beer fridge in the garage for quite a while. I got quite a good show from the bulbs I planted this season, but with one thing and another I forgot to lift them after they they had flowered ... so I certainly wasn't expecting to see them shoot up now. I normally don't bother growing tulips or peonies because they need that cold weather start to set the flower and it's been just too warm over the last couple of years. Come to think of it I don't remember having a frost in the last couple of years ... it has been cold, but not frosty.



Darcie	Mar 1 2015, 01:05 PM Post #2
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	If I saw a flower coming out of the ground I think I would faint from shock.



Kahu	Mar 1 2015, 01:17 PM Post #3
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	Not a flower, a row of green shoots in the planter box.



Darcie	Mar 1 2015, 01:41 PM Post #4
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Those are to be flowers, that would be enough.



FuzzyO	Mar 1 2015, 01:53 PM Post #5
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Can't see the ground for the snow. I am really fed up now. I was patient, but that patience is running very thin.



campy	Mar 1 2015, 05:43 PM Post #6
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	You can force tulips. The beer fridge gave them the cooling period they needto flower. Don't expect huge blooms. Edited by campy, Mar 1 2015, 05:46 PM.



Kahu	Mar 1 2015, 09:11 PM Post #7
Posts: 31,109 Group: Administration Member #150 Joined: December 14, 2005	I left them in the ground after they had flowered ... and now it's the hottest (30�C) and driest part of the year and they're all shooting again.



angora	Mar 2 2015, 03:30 AM Post #8
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	I'm sure my tulips are shooting up too but I cant see them for the 2 feet of snow over them. I like to think positively.



Trotsky	Mar 2 2015, 03:55 AM Post #9
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Kahu Mar 1 2015, 09:11 PM I left them in the ground after they had flowered ... and now it's the hottest (30�C) and driest part of the year and they're all shooting again. Once they get out of sync, it's the same as if a florist forced them. You will possibly get blooms again but only once and that will likely spell the death of the bulbs. Are they old well established bulbs or some that you planted only last year? Old bulbs should "know better" than to commit suicide like that. signs081 Since you are in the Southern Hemisphere I hope you had the good sense to plant the bulbs upside down.<tee, hee> Edited by Trotsky, Mar 2 2015, 03:59 AM.



agate	Mar 2 2015, 04:41 AM Post #10
Posts: 21,864 Group: Administration Member #203 Joined: February 2, 2006	sounds like they are totally out of wack. Sorry to have to say to you ladies out east with your 2/3 feet of snow but my tulips are up. laugh123 flowering plum tree is in blossom, plus many other blooming things.



angora	Mar 2 2015, 04:42 AM Post #11
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	curses!



blizzard	Mar 2 2015, 06:41 AM Post #12
Gold Star Member Posts: 4,152 Group: Member Member #1,012 Joined: July 8, 2013	Magnolias in full bloom in Victoria. Cherry trees beginning to shake their petals into a pink snow. My daffodils are beginning to open - a bit colder closer to the ocean breeze where I live which seems to mean my flowers are about a week behind.



Dana	Mar 2 2015, 07:41 AM Post #13
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	Kahu Mar 1 2015, 09:11 PM I left them in the ground after they had flowered ... and now it's the hottest (30�C) and driest part of the year and they're all shooting again. You could experiment with them by removing some of the flower buds to prevent their blooming. They would then grow and feed the bulb and possibly bloom on cue after your winter, maybe?



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