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can anyone tell me what happened to my daffodils?! zone 6

2 years ago

last modified: 2 years ago

i believe the foliage did come up early during a warm spell, so we had a lot of freezing temps and snow after they leaves had already been up- is this from that? half of the foliage from the tips down is brown and withered, there are no buds at all..... will they come back next year? or is this not from the weather and may be some type of infection? any help is appreciated

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katob Z6ish, NE Pa

2 years ago

That looks like freeze damage to me. Some daffodils are more likely to get damaged than others, and some just grow through it and bloom normally. This would almost always happen to my 'Erlicheer' daffodils until one year it just outright killed them.

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
2 years ago
I don’t know the cause but there are two flower buds in the picture. one looks blasted but the other might make it.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years ago
as long as there is green tissue.. the plant can convert sun into energy.. to store in the bulbs for next year ...

do not cut it back or remove it.. until it browns on its own ...

this surprises me that daffs would do this.. it much have been some extraordinary event ... are they any kind of special daffs .. like maybe florist daffs.. more suited to a greenhouse than outdoors????

ken

ps: z6 is almost half the US...and very divergent.. give us a big city name .. maybe it will tell us something????
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j k
Original Author
2 years ago
@katob Z6ish, NE Pa i believe those are my erlicheers! i hope next year they'll be ok. should i fertilize them to give the bulb a bit of extra energy they may have lost from the damaged foliage?
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
2 years ago
If these are Erlicheer they have tazetta parentage which would account for their being more cold sensitive than the tough trumpets.
j k thanked floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
katob Z6ish, NE Pa
2 years ago
You could fertilize, it might help but it's not necessary. Hope the flowers make it! The leaves will just grow out normally but will keep a slight brown end.

Like I mentioned, mine ended up dying after one particularly bad cold spell after a mild January, so they're great for warmer climates, good for colder, but in between they can be iffy. Two summers when I must have had nothing better to do, I dug and dried the bulbs, replanting in October and they did well with that, but...
j k thanked katob Z6ish, NE Pa
three4rd47
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Zone 6 here also. All I can say is, weather pattern has been crazy. I had nice bloom on my forsythia hedge, and then we had a snow event with freezing temps and that pretty well nipped them. My daffodils did come up and bloom as usual, but not for long. Surprisingly the lilac buds made it through some of these erratic temperature swings. I just posted about not having chrysanthemum growth in a few of my beds. Sorry to hear about the daffodils. Unfortunately have to wait till next year. I suspect they'll be fine.
j k thanked three4rd47
katob Z6ish, NE Pa
2 years ago
Yeah, erratic weather... snowdrop season got a blast of cold and then when they tried to recover, a blast of warmth to end them all. Then more cold, enough to damage daffodil stalks and hyacinth buds, then wind so the surviving daffs look black and blue, then snow to flatten any hyacinths which tried to recover, and now it looks like beautiful warm weather for a couple of days to melt the snow and then by Sunday it's supposed to reach 80F.

You can't say it's boring.
j k thanked katob Z6ish, NE Pa
j k
Original Author
2 years ago
@ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5 Buffalo, i believe they were erlicheers...guess I will just hope they'll be ok next spring.

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