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Hi, I'm Jessica Smith, and I work for Bland's Nursery in West Jordan, Utah, and today, we're
talking all about planting bulbs. Right now, we're going to discuss how to plant paper
whites in water. Now, this is done with rocks is your normal thing, and you do not want
a drainage hole on your, on your pot. Otherwise, your water will run right out. Place your
rock, fill your pot with rocks up to where you have a few inches left for the bulb itself.
What you'll do with the paper white; point it end up as always with any type of a bulb
that has the point to the top, and you'll get it just nestled down into the rocks. You
could go a little higher if you wanted to, but you kind of want those rocks to hold up
the bulb and put just a few around it. You can also do rocks on the bottom just to help
fill up the pot, but what you could do is also like the little marbles, or the little
glass beads and that all around it for a nice little accent. Now, we're going to go ahead
and give it some water. What you want to do is put it towards the side. Don't hit the
water bulb with the water. And just fill it up. Now, you're only going to fill up to where
it just barely comes to the top of the rocks, and kinda' watch, because you don't want the
water to touch the bulb but it needs to come up close enough to the, to the bulb itself
so that it could actually get the water. You can see right down here we just stop the water
right there. Now, I actually started forcing these about a week ago. At this point, what
you're going to do is you're going to take this this container and put it in a darkened
area. Here in about a few weeks or so you're going to actually start to get some growth
off of this, and it's going to be yellow right at first. This is the time that you're able
to take it out of its cold dormant stage basically. It's not really a cold dormant stage, but
you're just putting it in a lower light. At this point, when it begins to have these small
little yellow nubs come up out of it then you can go ahead and move it into where you're
going to be storing it, and then in a few days with about four to five days that little
part will turn green. I started this one about a week ago or so, and you can see; it's already
pushing out the roots. Those roots'll work down through the rocks and actually help stabilize
the bulb also. In time though it, they do get a little top-heavy when they begin to
bloom, so some support around it. You could even tie like a ribbon around that too. A
nice little red ribbon around the Christmas holidays is nice.