If a daffodil bulb comes up blind can you make it produce a flower next year?

It's a question that my mum wanted to know, hope someone can help!

If a daffodil bulb comes up blind can you make it produce a flower next year?
In my experience it's better to start afresh and buy new bulbs. I've worked for the local authority as a gardener for 20 years and many of the naturalised daffodils in the parks, etc eventually come up blind, so we end up mowing them more or less straight away.





In order for naturalised daff's to flower we leave them for eight weeks before cutting them, but many still do not flower as they get older.





One thing to avoid is folding them over and tying them as they will not photosynthesise properly and may not flower the following season. All in all I'd get some new bulbs.
Reply:start feeding them now every couple of days with a general fertiliser ... let the foliage die down naturally ... lack of feeding and or cutting the foliage back before it is dead ... these are the most common reasons
Reply:If they have flowered successfully before, then they probably need splitting. Dig them out, divide them up and replant seperately. Again don't tie up leaves and leave them on the plant until they die back naturally.
Reply:Yes. DON'T cut off the leaves, or fold them, or tie them up with rubber bands etc. Just leave them to die off naturally. The bulb feeds itself this way. You can give it some help by using fertiliser at this stage.


They look awful, but don't mow the ones naturalised in grass either.
Reply:Hi!!





If, by "blind", you mean without a flower (I'm sorry, I'm from the US), yes it can produce a flower next year.





One reason daffodils and other bulbs have problems producing flowers is that the green leaves are cut down as soon as they finish blooming. If the greenery isn't there, it can't produce the energy to store in the bulb for the flower for next year. (I keep telling my husband this, but he continues to mow them down as soon as the flower is gone. This year, he wondered why they never flowered. So far, he has been mowing around them this year!!! lol)





If you just planted them, however, they won't bloom until next year.)