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Post by edie3 on Feb 1, 2024 21:20:04 GMT
I bought one today at Trader Joes. I just love the way they smell. But I have a black thumb. Do I need to repot it? Direct sun? I need all the details. It has not bloomed yet.
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Post by Tearisci on Feb 1, 2024 22:13:46 GMT
I buy these every year as they are my favorite flowers. I'm going to head to TJs this weekend and get mine. They are bulbs but I've never tried to replant them. They just die when they die, but it would be good to know if someone has had success replanting them.
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Post by librarylady on Feb 1, 2024 23:29:58 GMT
I found this. (I have never grown them.) Hyacinths do best in full to part sun. Make sure the soil is loose and loamy. Hyacinth bulbs tend to rot in heavy soils that hold a lot of moisture. If your soil is heavy, improve its drainage by mixing in compost, shredded pine bark, or aged manure.
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Post by iowgirl on Feb 2, 2024 0:06:12 GMT
I would not repot it now.
If you want, keep it alive even after it flowers. Keep the green part going. Once any danger of frost has passed, transplant the green into a garden/flower bed. The green part will wither and die away. Next spring it might rebloom. It might not.
The bulb you have now has been forced, so it might be viable to keep, or it might be a gonner. But I tuck mine into my flower beds and some come back the next spring, some don't.
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Post by caangel on Feb 2, 2024 2:22:54 GMT
My area doesn't get cold enough for it to rebloom after the first year. But I do have Paperwhites and amaryllises in my yard that have returned for a decade or two.
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Post by edie3 on Feb 2, 2024 4:38:13 GMT
So leave it in the pot it came in?
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Post by caangel on Feb 2, 2024 5:58:49 GMT
So leave it in the pot it came in? yes, leave it until it blooms and dies back completely. Then research the best time to plant in your area. |
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Post by Scrapper100 on Feb 2, 2024 6:15:15 GMT
Darn. I forgot to put my bulbs from last year outside to chill. They have bloomed again for me. I keep them in the glass container. I put them on our patio. I will have to look for sone at TJs next time I go I didn’t notice them yesterday but I wasn’t looking for them.
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Post by mikklynn on Feb 2, 2024 12:53:21 GMT
I love Hyacinths! Funny story - one of my grandson's hockey buddies lives on a street named Hyacinth. I commented on them being a favorite flower when I drove him home. He said "That's a flower?!"
I'm going to pop into TJ and buy one for myself and one for his mom.
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Post by Restless Spirit on Feb 3, 2024 0:40:46 GMT
I was in there today. They had some, but the price wasn’t marked. Asked a few employees and no one knew. They told me to take it to register to ask. Nope. Not waiting in a long line to check a price.
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