How To Plant Hyacinth Bulbs Indoors For Christmas

Add more fibre up to the neck of the bulbs.

How to plant hyacinth bulbs indoors for christmas.

Planting your christmas hyacinth bulbs put a layer of damp bulb fibre or compost in your bowl. Click here to view our video tutorial on indoor hyacinth planting. The most popular one is the dutch one because each mature bulb produces a massive spike of flowers. If you live in a climate zone with mild winters where the bulbs won t freeze you can keep them in a trench cold frame or greenhouse covered with a thick layer of mulch or a thick pile of dry leaves to protect them from sunlight and insulate them against temperature fluctuations.

The bulbs can be close together but not touching each other or the side of the container. Place the bulbs on it nose upwards. Hyacinths are colourful spring flowering bulbs that with a little encouragement can be persuaded to flower indoors around christmas. Plant up fill your container with the soil and compost mixture and place the bulbs so that their tips will just reach below the soil surface.

If placed incorrectly your hyacinth might grow crooked or sideways and die before it reaches the surface. There are two types of hyacinth generally available dutch and roman. Water when required do not allow them to dry out. To successfully force hyacinth bulbs indoors you ll need high quality bulbs a well drained commercial potting mix and suitable containers.

Containers for forcing can be plastic clay ceramic or metal. Fill the gaps with more bulb. Put in three or five hyacinth bulbs all the same variety and fill the pot to where you see the ridge at the top making sure the noses of the bulbs are just above the surface of the compost. Place your pot in a cool dark cupboard for 6 8 weeks.

Use multi purpose compost or bulb fibre and part fill the pot or container you re using. Once shoots have established bring the pot into warm daylight. How do i force hyacinths for christmas. When shoots appear wait until they are about 5cm 2in high and arrange the three pots in an 18cm 7in bowl.

Dutch hyacinth delft blue. Check bulbs regularly and water if the compost feels dry. Then add your bulbs and backfill until only the tip of the bulb is showing. You can plant them quite close together but don t let them touch each other.

Plant the bulbs in the holes with the pointed end facing up. The location to chill hyacinth bulbs needs to be dark moist and have a consistent chilling temperature between 40 and 45 degrees f. Keep it all moist but not too wet make sure the water. Fill around the bulbs with more compost leaving their tops just poking out at the top and water.