Tulips----weird!

[Julie Heldt]

This year, some of my tulips had a severe problem! They looked okay,
they had buds, but then the buds fell over until they were completely
upside down. Some also bent over 90 degrees, and a few were just fine.
Some of these I have had for 5 or 6 years, some I planted last year.
They are all different types. Nothing seems to correlate. I live in
zone 5. I put a little bulb food on them every year after the flowers
die. I thought maybe the neighbor got some Roundup on them, but she said
she didn't spray any. ):

[Dawn James]

Tulips don't bloom well after the first year. They conitnue to bloom less
and less each year.

[Judy Scott]

In article <4nls99$o...@nntp.interaccess.com>, mnjh...@interaccess.com wrote:

> This year, some of my tulips had a severe problem! They looked okay,
> they had buds, but then the buds fell over until they were completely
> upside down. Some also bent over 90 degrees, and a few were just fine.
> Some of these I have had for 5 or 6 years, some I planted last year.
> They are all different types. Nothing seems to correlate. I live in
> zone 5. I put a little bulb food on them every year after the flowers
> die. I thought maybe the neighbor got some Roundup on them, but she said
> she didn't spray any. ):

Ours did the same. I think it was the weight of late snows.

These opinions are mine and you have to get your own..

Judy Scott
Cornell University
js...@cornell.edu

[Anna Stoll]

Dawn James wrote:
>
> In article <4nls99$o...@nntp.interaccess.com>, mnjh...@interaccess.com wrote:
>
> > This year, some of my tulips had a severe problem! They looked okay,
> > they had buds, but then the buds fell over until they were completely
> > upside down. Some also bent over 90 degrees, and a few were just fine.
> > Some of these I have had for 5 or 6 years, some I planted last year.
> > They are all different types. Nothing seems to correlate. I live in
> > zone 5. I put a little bulb food on them every year after the flowers
> > die. I thought maybe the neighbor got some Roundup on them, but she said
> > she didn't spray any. ):
>

> Tulips don't bloom well after the first year. They conitnue to bloom less
> and less each year.

I have tulips that have been blooming in the same spot for years. There
shouldn't be that dramatic of a change in the second year. Sounds like a
virus or something.
--
Anna Stoll
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University

[Susan Sanders]

In article <4nls99$o...@nntp.interaccess.com> Julie Heldt,

mnjheldt@I\interaccess.com writes:
>This year, some of my tulips had a severe problem! They looked okay,
>they had buds, but then the buds fell over until they were completely
>upside down. Some also bent over 90 degrees, and a few were just fine.
>Some of these I have had for 5 or 6 years, some I planted last year.
>They are all different types. Nothing seems to correlate. I live in

I don't know where in zone 5 you are, but around here (Ann Arbor, MI)
tulip stems bent in some odd shapes when we had a hard freeze after the
flowers were open. The morning after, all of the tulips were hanging
their heads, but after it warmed up most of them perked up again, but
some didn't make it all the way back. Did you have a similar freeze?