Best way to grow daffodils?

i have two large bulbs of daffodils in a ceramic daffodil tray with water and rocks. they've been growing well, they're about 1 1/2 ft tall almost, but for some reason they're drying up. what i want to know is:





amount of water (how much should cover the bulbs/roots)


amount of sunlight if any


any trimming needed?





please keep it simple i'm not going to invest in fertilizer or anything fancy. just some basic suggestions THANKS

Best way to grow daffodils?
What you're doing is called "Bulb Forcing".





Water should NOT cover the bulbs. That will cause them to rot. The best method for forcing bulbs is to cover only the roots with water and leave the bulbs themselves to be dry. They should get as much full sun as you can give them, and don't trim them at all. At this point, you don't want to provide any fertilizer. the bulbs are living off the stored energy in the bulb.





After blooming, you can plant the bulbs in your garden and they will come back year after year. Do not remove the greenery from them when planting either...the greenery helps the bulbs gather light to concentrate more stored energy in the bulb for next year. Also, the bulbs prefer dry soil during the summer, so don't water that spot during the summer and they'll do best.





Other bulbs that do well being "forced" are hyacinths and crocuses.
Reply:no trimming necessary, but it's it about time to go in the ground with soil?
Reply:Well You don't say if the Daffodils are in bloom but since they are in a tray it sounds like they were bought in bloom. If that is the case, they are just done for the season, they have a very short bloom period. If you want them to come back next year, put them in the ground, pinch off the blooms and let the greens just continue thru the summer, when you pinch off the bloom, leave the stem as it helps nourish the bulb and assure a good bloom next year...


If the plant is not in bloom yet, they are a full sun plant, so put them in full sun, keep them wet but not nesessarily floating since there natural habitat is dirt not rocks and water, you may also have them in a spot in the house that is too hot with no humidity, they are a spring flower so cool and rainy season is there natural state...

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