On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:08:55 +0000, Kay Easton wrote:

...Feed the daffs from now until they die down - whether
they flower next year depends on them building up the buds now.

Actually, that's not true. Yes, I know, that's what all the books
say, but my own experience suggests otherwise. I have found that
fertilizer applied at the beginning of September leads to
considerably improved flowering of narcissus the next spring.

I have no idea what the devil the mechanism is, given that the
flower buds in narcissus *are* formed the previous summer. At a
guess, flower buds form easily in summer, but lack of adequate
nutrients causes them to abort during the winter.

So if you forget to feed your daffs now, try a fall feeding.


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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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