Propagate daffodils »This is the best way to do it

This method has proven itself: dividing the onions

The most proven method of propagating Daffodils is dividing their onions from underground. If you choose this method, you should wait until late summer. Then the best time to share has come. The plants usually bloom in the year after next after they have gained a foothold in spring. The results are unmixed.

How to do it:

• Digging fork take it to hand
• Get the daffodil clumps out of the ground
• Remove coarse soil from onions
• Separate the broiling onions (smaller than the main onion)
• a piece of the base plate should adhere to each bulb to be propagated (place for root formation)

But where to plant? The newly obtained onions plants You to another place. It should be sunny to partially shaded there. A nutrient-rich and well-drained soil is necessary for healthy growth. The main onion is put back in its place when the soil has been fertilized.

Sowing - for patient gardeners keen to experiment

• for the sowing do not choose a hybrid variety
• Do not remove flowers after they have wilted
• Seeds are ripe when the stem collapses
• Remove seeds immediately and do not dry them (germination capacity suffers)
• 1 cm deep in Sowing soil z. B. into the cold Cold frame sow (dark and cold germs)
• hesitant germination
• first flowering: after four years

Share daffodils - not just for propagation

Sharing daffodils is not just important for propagation. All daffodils should be divided after 3 years. They form bulbs after flowering. Over time, the onions will stand close together and rob each other of the nutrients in the soil.

Often the nutrients are insufficient to produce flowers. For this reason, you should regularly dig up your daffodils and separate the bulb bulbs from the main bulb. Subsequent fertilization makes sense.

Tips & Tricks

For propagation, only separate bulbs that have already become isolated from the main onion.