Snow Storm Daffodils!!!

The Daffodil Project is complete.
This is the first time I've tried to grow spring flowers inside, in the winter.
We finally had a decent snowstorm today and it came just in time for the blooming of daffodils!

Since we had a warm fall that snuck, sneaked, squeaked it's warmness right into December I took the opportunity to invade the perennial gardens. While snooping around the front garden about a week before Christmas I discovered the daffodils were confused, poor dears. They were sprouting up toward the sun! Wait a minute people! Hang on bulb-heads, it hadn't even been cold yet.

So I dug up two sections of bulbs and literally plopped them into some patio pots. I mean they were plopped, and stuffed, with little help from me at all.
They sat outside on a porch where I could grab them should the weather turn foul, I left them outside for nearly 3 weeks to let the cold really get to them, watering them now and again.

Then they marched right into the house up close to the brightest southern exposure window available.
Oh, look at you, such tiny stems.

You wanna watch 'em grow up?

The healthy full pot in front has stem about 7 inches tall here after 3 weeks inside
.. the pot in back is not happy. Moving on.

Oh there's that lagging behind pot again.. But hey just look at the favored patio pot.. the one with the 12 inch stems and buds! 7 buds! It's January, Sideline friends! Am loving this!

This is so easy to do and The Daffodil Project has calmed my itchy twitchy gardener's fingers. 
What a treat!
Should you want to try this next year please don't do what I did, begin where one should begin, with good potting soil, then place the bulbs at the designated depth in the pot in the fall. Leave them outside to chill at below 40 degree temperatures for at least 3 months. 
Oh and the pot, it must have drainage holes, tis easy to rot plants! Water them regularly but not so they're soggy. 
When the stems begin to emerge from the soil place the pots in a bright window, I turned the pots 1/4 turn every couple of days so the stems would grow upward and straight, not reaching toward the window for sunlight. 
I didn't fertilize them at all. 

It just began to bloom this week. They've been in the house for 6 weeks.

 

I moved the flowers to the foyer of our home where

everyone can enjoy them all day. 

  Here's a trick, put the pot in front of a mirror.

Enjoy!

Sideline Grandma