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On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:49:44 +0100, Roger Tonkin
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I bought and planted up my indoor hyacinth's a couple of weeks
ago. At the time the garden centre gave me a paper about
growing them indoors.

Well, today I read it, and found according to them I've been
doing it wrong for the last 50+ years!

I am supposed to plant then in pots with drain holes, where as
I've always used (mainly plastic) pots and never seemed to have
any problems.

Why? Is this a new fad, some one not knowing what they are
doing, or a sales ploy to sell more pot?

Like many things, the right way to do anything is if it works, and the
wrong way is if it doesn't.

I guess growing hyacinths in pots with drain holes works perfectly
well, but so does growing them in a hyacinth vase with the water just
below or touching the base of the bulb, which is probably in effect
very similar to what you do but without any compost.
http://tinyurl.com/y5rwodyv No drainage there!

I do grow one like that it a glass. Always quite effective for
the grandchildren to learn about how things grow!

The rest are in plastic or ceramic pots, with bulb fibre, in a
drawer in the garage as usual.

Another amusing thing last year when I asked in a local
garden/pet shop about bulb fibre, they did not have any" BUT
they had bulb compost! Got it n the garden centre this year.

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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales