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girlwithsixarms

When to take certain bulbs out of the fridge

girlwithsixarms
10 years ago

Hello! This year I started my first attempt at forcing bulbs indoors. While the hyacinths have been a no-brainer, I need a little help/wisdom on when to take my tulips and grape hyacinth out.

I'm using water/marbles for both of them and right now some of them have about 1 1/2 inches of growth on top, but not a lot of root system development. Should I take them out when they've got 2 inches on top (I did that with the hyacinths, but they also had major roots by then) or should I wait until they've got fairly spread out roots?

I also don't know if leaving them in the fridge with that much sprouting will damage the plants or if taking them out too soon is worse than leaving them in too long.

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