20 Ziva Paperwhites!- Indoor Narcissus: Narcissus Tazetta: Nice, Healthy Bulbs for Holiday Forcing!!

These were made into forced bulb centerpieces for my son's February wedding and turned out lovely. Every one of the bulbs bloomed which is fairly rare in my case anyway.

These bulbs were about half the size of healthy bulbs, were soft, bruised, and had no roots at all. I've planted them over three weeks ago and they finally put out some foliage (short and sparse), but only three flowerettes - not even one full blossom. I usually buy bulbs to force at my local nursery and did so again this year - they were gorgeous! I only planted these to see if they would do ANYTHING at all. The worst part is I also sent some to a family member as a Christmas present. Once I got mine, I sent a 2nd package with bulbs from my nursery to them. THESE ARE A COMPLETE BUST!

Every single one bloomed. My house is filled with them

I ordered these bulbs. They were small for this type of bulb. Many of them were partially rotted. I planted them and maybe 3-4 of them actually bloomed with only a very small bloom. The rest were leaves only. I force paperwhites on a regular basis and never have I seen such a poor turnout as these. Don't waste your money.

The bulbs were much smaller than I expected. 3 of 20 were rotten. These are only suitable for dirt growth and not vase growth which I had planned to do. You can probably get larger bulbs for less at Garden Dept of Box store.

I ordered these paperwhite bulbs in order to force bloom them in water. Of the 20 bulbs, 2 were a bit moldy but I just peeled the outer layers (which did reduce the size by half). It took them exactly one month to bloom (see picture). I also read that in order to stunt the leaves, to add 5% alcohol (I used about a tablespoon of vodka) to the water but only did the when the leaves were about 4 inches in height. Next time I will stunt them sooner so that I dont have leaves and flowers tipping over.

Most of the bulbs look unhealthy with black residue (mold?) on them and smells bad. The Nir bulbs from a different seller on Amazon are not like this.

I ordered 2 bags one was full of great big bulbs which bloomed beautiful . Sorry to say the other bag the bulbs were small and not one bloomed. Just a lot of tall greens. So sad some were gifts I sure looked bad.