Daffodil Care Guide: Tips for Growing and Nurturing Daffodils

How to grow daffodils, how to care for daffodils

The art of growing daffodils

The art of growing daffodils. What you need to know to get the daffodils you want to bloom at the right ᴛι̇ɱe

How to grow daffodils, how to care for daffodils

How to plant daffodils:

This is a very precious flower, appearing only on Tet. This flower cannot be grown in Vietnam, because it is a flower that can only be grown in cold countries. When Tet comes, we often buy daffodils from China to bring them, in the past, we have researched to try planting but failed, the plant only has leaves but no flowers.

Daffodils are known to the Chinese as the Golden Pearl, the flower looks like a golden cup placed on a silver calyx. Daffodils fragrant discreetly and tenderly beautiful, double-flowered, single-flowered, single-flowered flowers look more delicate than double-flowered. The yellow stamens fringe across the row at regular intervals as if forming a cup and the petals are white. The leaves looked a little stiff but were just as gliding as the blue silk robes of the fairies.

There are ɱaпy types of daffodils, but in Vietnam, I often play white-winged daffodils. In addition, red wings and yellow stamens are abundant in cold countries such as Japan, France … called a pastel-pink daffodil, with yellow stamens brown petals…

Daffodils are beautiful, and it can be said that this is a sepal. The beauty, the fragrance of daffodils is so precious.

To play daffodils is both an art and also very fussy. First, we have to peel the daffodils so that they bloom at the right ᴛι̇ɱe and as if the flower is just for us.

Peeling daffodils is a whole art. If not peeled, daffodils will also bloom, but the flowers will pierce like the flowers of an onion, the leaves are not soft, the flowers are poor and lose the preciousness of daffodils.

Starting from daffodil bulbs, it must be skillfully selected so that the bulbs branch, sprout and then bud. The peeled daffodil bulbs are then placed in separate vases made of transparent crystals to highlight the beauty of the flowers, leaves and even the roots of the flowers.

Water in vases, florists must always keep the water pure and must be changed. Otherwise, the flower roots that are prone to rot will spoil and affect the flower immediately. And also depending on the weather, florists must know how to keep the water cold a lot or make the water warm. If so, new players are sure that the flowers will bloom as they want.

The ancients who played daffodils used to keep the flowers blooming just in ᴛι̇ɱe for New Year’s Eve. At this ᴛι̇ɱe, players both enjoy flowers and welcome back Spring, all seem to begin to enter a new year. And the ancients always believed that the first flowers blooming in the middle of New Year’s Eve and the next flowers blooming on the morning of Tet will be an omen to bring the family joy and prosperity all year round.

Growing daffodils:

Methods of growing daffodils and choosing flower bulbs for planting

Narcissus Tazetta Linn belongs to the Garlic Onion family, autumn growth, winter bloom, spring nutrient accumulation, summer sleep. Originally produced in China, especially Fujian, Shanghai Narcissus is a light-loving, warm-loving and humid plant, resistant to drought, afraid of cold.

Family daffodils are often planted in water, because the narcissus bulbs have differentiated, they flower after a short ᴛι̇ɱe, spring has given fresh flowers. Growing daffodils in water, it is necessary to choose healthy bulbs, first peel the brown outside, then, from the left side, from the top down to 1-3 bulbs, then cut across the tubers, and at the same ᴛι̇ɱe cut two ᴛι̇ɱes on the side of the bud. main until the middle of the tuber When bud does not cause damage to the bud. Soak in water for 1 day and night, wash and then put it vertically in the water, around to fix pebbles, quartz sand or seashells. Water only 1/3 of the tuber is medium, not too deep or too shallow. After pouring water in, during the day let it be warm enough, bring it to the room at night. Before adding a little water to prevent the leaves from growing long. Early the next morning, have to add water and take it out in the morning. When pouring water, care should be taken not to change the direction of the tubers. The daffodil has just been put into the pot, can change the water once a day, then change it once every 2 or 3 days, when the flowerpot grows, change it once a week, after about 40 days the flowers will bloom. Although daffodils can be cold, but in low temperature conditions the plant grows slowly, flowers bloom late, so spring must increase the temperature. During the flowering period, the flower pot should be placed in a cold place (temperature not higher than 12 degrees Celsius) and given enough light. Thus, the daffodil leaves will be short, dark in color, and beautiful in shape. To make daffodil leaves short, fat, dark, the key problem is to choose good bulbs. When buying daffodils, we need to choose big, strong, and beautiful bulbs. Choose tubers: Choose by weight, not 40 bulbs per kg is good, the fewer tubers, the bigger and fatter the tubers. The tuber diameter is not 23cm. Choose tuber shape: Based on the tuber morphology, we choose round, flat, firm tubers, the outer skin has wide longitudinal veins, bright color. Glossy brown tubers are fine. Choose buds: Squeeze gently with your hands, if the flower buds are firm and elastic, if the leaf buds are spongy, the tubers are not elastic.

 

Technique of planting and caring for daffodils

Narcissus is a light-loving, warm-loving and moisture-loving plant, moisture-resistant, drought-resistant, afraid of cold. Therefore, in order for daffodils to grow normally, daily illumination for at least 6 hours, lack of light will make long leaves grow with few flowers or no boa, if there are flowers, the thin flower head looks very bad. But do not bring the plant to the sun, drying a lot is not conducive to growth, daffodils grow in autumn and winter bloom. Narcissus growth and development need a large amount of water, by the ᴛι̇ɱe of maturity metabolism decreases, so the amount of water must also decrease. Narcissus needs to be kept in clean water, do not use hard water, dirty water or water mixed with oil, otherwise it will rot the roots and grow poorly.

Before the growth period, daffodils are cool-loving but later warm-loving. Temperature 20-24oC, humidity 70-80%, very suitable for tuber growth. The suitable temperature for flowering is 17- 20oC, exceeding 25oC inhibits flowering and affects blooming. Growing daffodils outdoors for bulbs per month requires only 1-2 waterings. If nitrogen fertilizers are too much, the leaves are overgrown, the rapid division of tubers affects flowering. When growing in water there is no need to fertilize if there are conditions, during the flowering period add a little N. P, K will give more beautiful flowers. Growing daffodils outdoors, the soil must be loose, ɱaпy nets have good water retention, thick soil layer, pH 5 – 7.5.

This will ensure normal plant growth. If you plant a pot, you need to use 2 parts of sandy loam, 1 part of rotting leaves, 1 part of sand and mix a little fertilizer primer. After planting need watering, leave the place with enough light. It is not recommended to apply too much fertilizer.