i recently purchased some potted tulips from trader joe’s. i transplanted them into a larger pot about a week ago. they are by a window, but not in direct light. they get water three times a week. however, the leaves are turning yellow at the ends. the flowers, which are pink, are starting to look purple \around the edges. what am i doing wrong?
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Tulip flowers only last a couple weeks. Transplanting something when it’s in flower is really stressful – I’d would say that’s part of the problem – if it weren’t a tulip – which isn’t going to last anyway.
You can give it some fertilizer in the water now and then, but really not much water – let the soil go a bit dry in between. When the threat of frost passes, you can plant the bulbs directly in the ground. Put some bulb fertilizer in the hole before you plant – that’s really all it will need. It may or may not come up and flower next year. Forced tulips (tulips made to flower early, in the winter, in pots) often don’t have enough energy left to re-bloom the next year. But it never hurts to try.
Also they have a very long dormancy period. When they are outside in the ground, the leaves come up, they flower, then they fade – both the flower and the leaves die back. Summer, fall, and winter – there is nothing to see above ground.
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