Hi, If you needa flower bulb to grow a flower, how are flower bulbs made. How do you grow bulbs to start with?

Answer 1

Flowers produce new bulbs each season.

Answer 2

If you want a flower out of a bulb here are the planting instructions: get a 10 inch pot and fill it with a good quality potting soil. Bury the bulb in the middle of the pot about two inches under the soil, some bulbs require that the top be exposed slightly for better results. Make sure you keep the bulb in a warm place at all times, especially if it is not one that stays outside for the winter. Also, it must be kept in the sun all day, The more sun the more chances of getting a flower. A lack of sun will result in a plant with no flower production. Make sure that the soil is kept moist at all times and fertilize with acid bulb mix, which gives you a very healthy plant. A bulb is layered like an onion right down to it's center, do not peel any of the brown covering as this keeps the inner part of the bulb moist and prevents drying of it.....Enjoy your precious flower.......KECK

Answer 3

There are bulbs like onions, or corms like gladioli, or other forms of fleshy roots that can look like bulbs such as the tubers on dahlias.
Bulbs reproduce themselves in three ways (1) from seed (2) from produced a bulblet (baby bulb at the base of the parent) (3) division of a single bulb into multiple baby ones.

Some bulbs can generally only be grown from seed these include ordinary onions. Some like garlic and "potato onion" are most reliably produced from division. Others like daffodils and many flowering bulbs develop a small bulb from at their base just above the roots and this will the next year grown its own roots and be in-dependant.
This last method has a modification where in some species like the brunsvigia (more than a foot in diameter) you can cut a very small piece of the tough root area off and if planted it will grow a new bulb (well initially a very little one but its a step toward big things).
And of course some bulbs like "tree onions" are a bit confused, they send up a shoot but instead of ending with a flower/s to produce seed it forms instead a head of tiny bulblets than can be removed and individually planted out.
Hope this has helped.

Answer 4

A plant has to start from somewhere - and, in most cases its the seed of a mother plant. Bulbs are simply roots which "house" the flower, leaves, etc of the flowering plant - much the way the roots inside the ground of a tree are what makes up the structure of the tree.

Bulbs can be propogated in other ways other than just by seeds - for instance, you can have bulbs self-divide and create new "bulblets" such as what daffodils, some amarylis and many other bulbs typically do.

You can also "force" this along by what is known as "scaling" a bulb - which is basically chopping a bulb (such as a hyacinth) up into pieces and store them in a sterile medium. After a few weeks, the "bulblets" will begin to form from the "scales" of the original bulb. This isnt as easy as it sounds as it requires some experience in plant propogation and requires very clean practices -- plus, it would take a few years before you see any flowers.

So, to answer your question -- bulbs are made naturally by seeds; they can reproduce on their own by divisons and bulblets -- or, they can be forced to reproduce on their own by manmade propogation methods such as scaling or tissue culture.

Answer 5

It depends on the kind of flower bulb you have. And the season. It's a bit late for most bulbs now, unless you're int he Southern Hemisphere. And even then, i think it is a bit late!
Most bulbs are planted in the spring or autumn. You put them in the ground, usually with the pointed end upwards. YOu make a hole roughly about four times the size of the bulb and pop it in, cover it up and forget about it.
Bulbs grow more bulbs and soon you might have to uproot them and divide them up.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

Even flowers that have bulbs also produce seed; it takes some years for the seedling to develop sufficiently to flower. They also reproduce by splitting bulbs over time which is why you need to dig up and separate bulbs every few years.

Answer 7

Hello there. 'Bulb' is a word used to describe all underground, food-storage, swollen organs. It includes corms (as in Crocus), tubers (Dahlia's) and rhizomes (bearded Irises).

True bulbs have fleshy scales that overlap tightly and may be enclosed in a papery tunic (narcissus), or naked and loosely arranged (lillies).

Bulbs multiply by producing 'bulbils or bulblets' - these start of small and grow to reach flowering size. So, if you plant one bulb, in a few years the clump will get bigger and bigger!

It's important to site bulbs correctly - bulbs that originate from hot, dry climates won't do well in a woodland situation and vice versa.

The last thing to remember is that bulbs are food-storers. That's why it's important to leave the bulb foliage to die down naturally, as the leaves are producing the food-store for next year. I hope that helps, x

Answer 8

you buy a bulb,plant it,you take a flower on the top and another bulb in the soil,next year you will have 2 flowers and 4 bulbs abd so on...

Answer 9

Spring bulbs could be placed in a vase with marbles, sand, vermiculite, legos -- actual something that could be useful the bulbs. upload water to easily below the backside of the bulb, and roots will improve.

Answer 10

plants that grow from bulbs...inc the onion are partailly a-sexual...that means all you need is one bulb, and every year around late spring early summer the first buld will clone itself an number of times (like a potatoe) and you dig them up and split them up and there you have it!