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What if the daffodils fail?

Published: 2024-11-22 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/22, What if the daffodils fail?

When daffodils bloom and fail, they need to be pruned in time to avoid consuming too many nutrients and to avoid the invasion of diseases and insect pests. After all the daffodils have failed, the remaining bulbs can be cleaned and disinfected in a special disinfectant. After drying the skin, they can be preserved, either cryopreserved or buried in the soil.

What to do with the failed daffodils?

1. Pruning branches and leaves

When the daffodils fail, they need to be pruned in time, and the failed flowers are not suitable to stay on the plant, which will consume the excess nutrients of the daffodils and are vulnerable to diseases and insect pests, which is disadvantageous to the blooming of the remaining daffodils. Use sterilized sharp scissors when pruning.

2. Deal with seeding balls

After all the daffodils have failed, if you want it to continue to blossom in the coming year, you can actually clean up the bulbs, stay and plant them later, take the bulbs out of the culture medium, then cut off the rotten roots and residual roots on the surface, put them in a special disinfectant for disinfection, and then dry the epidermis and preserve them.

3. Preservation method

The daffodil bulb can be preserved in a low temperature environment, or it can be buried in the soil, bury the treated daffodil bulb in the loose and breathable soil, then keep the soil slightly moist and maintain it during the dormant period. wait until the temperature is right in the coming year before digging it out to continue planting.

 
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