Tulips hate me

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Bought several different ones and most rotted, these sprouting, but looks like they're working on rotting, too.
Wtf?

 

[flowerbug]

when and how did you plant them? in what kind of soil?

 

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when and how did you plant them? in what kind of soil?

Uhhh....feb 26 or so. 3in deep roughly. Compost/rabbit poo mix.

 

[flowerbug]

how much watering have they gotten and is it well drained?

if you gently pull the soil away from the top of a bulb is there a bulb still there or is it gone?

any green growth is a good thing, don't disturb that if possible, the leaves can break off pretty easy.

i've not done spring planting of tulips here at all so i don't have experience with that, but some people do force tulips in greenhouses for the blooms and such so it is possible, but the resulting bulb after the bloom may not be that great and need to recover for a year before it might bloom again. most of the time when people do the forcing of them out of season they discard the bulbs afterwards because they only wanted the bloom anyways.

 

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how much watering have they gotten and is it well drained?

if you gently pull the soil away from the top of a bulb is there a bulb still there or is it gone?

any green growth is a good thing, don't disturb that if possible, the leaves can break off pretty easy.

i've not done spring planting of tulips here at all so i don't have experience with that, but some people do force tulips in greenhouses for the blooms and such so it is possible, but the resulting bulb after the bloom may not be that great and need to recover for a year before it might bloom again. most of the time when people do the forcing of them out of season they discard the bulbs afterwards because they only wanted the bloom anyways.

Yeah, I bought them as a regular plant, idk anything about when is best to plant or force blooming or w/e.
Mostly just rain until recently as its gotten very hot and dry.
Idk, I'll have to go digging.

 

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Biggest one was very loose, so I stopped digging. Another had bits of root on its bulb.

 

[flowerbug]

i don't know what you mean by "as a regular plant". if they were already blooming when you bought them and you planted them after that then their natural sequence after blooming is to gradually die back (the leaves turn yellow and dry up) and finish up. they are usually done and gone (other than the bulb) by mid-June here. if it was hot and dry that would speed things up too.

they get the energy for regrowing a bulb from the leaves and they reform the bulb each year. if it doesn't get enough light or conditions are good enough it won't form a flower for the following season.

normally tulips are purchased as bulbs and planted in the fall or early winter.

bought as plants you can still plant them after they've bloomed but it is out of sequence and they may take a year or two to recover and bloom again.

 

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i don't know what you mean by "as a regular plant". if they were already blooming when you bought them and you planted them after that then their natural sequence after blooming is to gradually die back (the leaves turn yellow and dry up) and finish up. they are usually done and gone (other than the bulb) by mid-June here. if it was hot and dry that would speed things up too.

they get the energy for regrowing a bulb from the leaves and they reform the bulb each year. if it doesn't get enough light or conditions are good enough it won't form a flower for the following season.

normally tulips are purchased as bulbs and planted in the fall or early winter.

bought as plants you can still plant them after they've bloomed but it is out of sequence and they may take a year or two to recover and bloom again.

No. They're bulbs.