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Some Daffodils not blooming

8 years ago

Last Fall, I planted 90 daffodils bulbs from Costco and most of them have produced foliage, but only around 35 of them bloomed. They were planted in 3 groups of 30. They're growing in clay soil. They came up late since they're newly planted and spring was late this year. Does anyone know why many of them aren't blooming?

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dbarron
8 years ago
Maybe many of them were immature or didn't get settled in good enough to flower this year. You should have planted them by October at the latest.
a1an
8 years ago
You did say clay soil...

How hard or soft is it this time of the year for year. Concrete or a wet bog

Or somewhere in between
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mattzone5wi
Original Author
8 years ago
The soil surface is like concrete, below the surface is softer, but not really wet either, it's been mainly dry the last few weeks.
a1an
8 years ago
I don't have the answer as I'm not familiar with bulb sprouting in clay soil....I have seen clay soil in my former garden beds but I amend alot of OM so it's not as bad...

Have any other bulbs planted in same said soil conditions. How does it behave. I just know when it's dry, it's like concrete....ya know

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