How to save these daffodils which are growing indoors?

[Happyfeet77]

Pretty chuffed when I spotted a bud which flowered a few days later with a second a few days later. However the first is looking very shrivelled after a week and I wanted to save the second as it is looking like goig the same way as the first. I am obviously not very green fingered. They are in a pot with soil and stones in the bottom.

Have you watered it?

The flowers never last all that long indoors, it is too warm for them.

I was given some as a gift that have done exactly the same thing. They were lovely for about a week and then wilted/shrivelled despite watering.

I'm going to plant the bulbs in the garden.

Plant them outside in the ground. They will keep coming back every year. They will be happier outside.

Plant them in the garden. A lot deeper than they are in the pot

It's actually a school project for DD, will try outside in deeper soil in the absence of any better advice, thanks! Guess I will dig them up again when she needs to take into school.

There isn't any better advice, that's it. Indoors, the flowers only last a few days. They won't produce any more flower buds this year.

Is it too late to take them outside so that the flowers recover? Thanks

Yes.

As others have said plant them outside, twice the depth of the bulb, then remove the spent flower head. The leaves will make food for the next years flowers and then eventually turn brown, usually around April the leaves will rot off, then next spring pop up with lovely flowers again.

Thanks for the tips. I am not very green fingered though it is starting to grow on me! How long would flowers last outside?

They last weeks outside. But those ones won't, they'll come back next year though if you plant them now.

Nip down to the garden centre and buy a pot of flowering daffs for the school project and keep them outside till they need to go into school.

A couple of weeks.

My mother used to say “there’s no such thing as green fingered” - it’s knowledge, skill and experience”. You may be lacking on the knowledge front at the moment, but that can easily be rectified if your inclination lies that way.