Why my Narcissus and Daffodil aren't growing?

6 years ago

My Narcissus and Daffodil has stopped growing for about 3 or 4 weeks now, they're planted in a good soil, with regular watering and a good sun.

The Narcissus produced fresh green big leaves and suddenly stopped without any sign of flower buds yet.

The Daffodil produced very small leaves, and two of these leaves became a little yellow.

The weather got warmer a bit early, could that be the reason?

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
Both look perfectly healthy to me. Sometimes Narcissus will not flower if the bulb was underdeveloped. But without knowing your location, the current temperature and the history of the bulbs we really can't offer useful suggestions.
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Ran
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6 years ago
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK Thanks for your feedback!

It's been a warm Mediterranean weather this year, we didn't have a lot of cold days, and temperature now is about 22-24 C° during daylight, and 12-14 C° at night.

The Narcissus grew very fast at the beginning, while the Daffodil grew very slow and stopped at this condition.
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
6 years ago
Those are relatively warm temps.......did these bulbs receive proper chilling? That can affect their growth if insufficient time was provided for them to develop a proper root structure before it got warm. They also look like they are in containers and not planted very deeply. I'm not sure how much that might affect development but it is a consideration.

btw, 'daffodil' is just a common name for some forms of narcissus. But they are ALL narcissus :-))
Ran thanked gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
Ran
Original Author
6 years ago
That's what I'm afraid of, the weather this winter is very strange, it didn't get very cold, and if it did it was for a very short time, that's when the daffodil stopped growing.

The container is big I gues, unfortunately I don't have a garden :(

I noticed from some readings before that daffodil is a narcissus specie, I just use the names to distinguish them, also I have a third type of narcissus bulbs that are growing perfectly till now :))
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
Your third type might be one which requires less winter chill.

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