Episode 159 - Narcissus Bulbs

Cutting and planting your own narcissus for the Chinese New Year is fun. If you wish to have flowering narcissus on the New Year day, it's time to cut and plant the narcissus bulbs. I started the work yesterday.

I purchased one box of narcissus bulbs from the flower market recently. There were six bulbs in one box. As you can see from the second photo, the bulbs were individually packed. They had dark brown coloured clothes and came with mud. They looked ugly.

The first step I did was to remove the mud and the clothes of the bulbs . The result was six white onion like bulbs (See the third photo). They looked beautiful.

I cut the bulbs with a knife. The cut began at the position of around 1 cm from the bottom and went up to the top. One cut to each side of the bulb (2 cuttings altogether). I loosened the layers at the top of the bulb to make rooms for the flower shoots to come out (See the fourth photo). No pain no gain?

I then dropped the bulbs into a bucket of water and left them there for 24 hours (See the last photo). Live water?

They are now sitting in a flower vase (See the first photo).

Waiting for the flowers!


Links to subsequent stages of the narcissuses:

Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V