How do i care for my potted daffodils I just got at the grocery store?
Daffodils are a bulb and bulbs are good at storing their own water reserves. You shouldn’t over water them. Water your little pot with about 1/2 cup of water every 4 or 5 days (or whenever the soil goes dry to the touch). Bulbs are also almost completely oblivious to having more soil around them… they can grow out of practically no soil so repotting isn’t entirely necessary and certainly not for this season. Keep them near a window and cool. Don’t loose sight of the fact that daffodils are an early spring flower and do not bloom for very long (maybe 3 weeks at most). The cooler you can keep them the longer they will last. 45-60F (8-14C) is pretty ideal temperatures. Repot them to be outside in a container or garden and overplant them with something else for the summer leaving the bulbs dormant in the soil. They’ll pop up year after year in the early spring. Once the flower dries up and gets crusty on the top of the stem, “dead-head” the stems by snapping the dead flowers off… this
