How do you care for indoor tulips?

i recently purchased some potted tulips from trader joe's. i transplanted them into a larger pot about a week ago. they are by a window, but not in direct light. they get water three times a week. however, the leaves are turning yellow at the ends. the flowers, which are pink, are starting to look purple \around the edges. what am i doing wrong?

How do you care for indoor tulips?
Tulip flowers only last a couple weeks. Transplanting something when it's in flower is really stressful - I'd would say that's part of the problem - if it weren't a tulip - which isn't going to last anyway.



You can give it some fertilizer in the water now and then, but really not much water - let the soil go a bit dry in between. When the threat of frost passes, you can plant the bulbs directly in the ground. Put some bulb fertilizer in the hole before you plant - that's really all it will need. It may or may not come up and flower next year. Forced tulips (tulips made to flower early, in the winter, in pots) often don't have enough energy left to re-bloom the next year. But it never hurts to try.



Also they have a very long dormancy period. When they are outside in the ground, the leaves come up, they flower, then they fade - both the flower and the leaves die back. Summer, fall, and winter - there is nothing to see above ground.
Reply:they have more than likely bloomed for this year and are just naturally dying. plant them out side and they will come back next year
Reply:Tulips are adopted to hot and dry climates of Iran (where I live) and turkey so perhaps you are overwatering them... ONLY water when the media becomes dry... After the flowers fade, remove them but keep the green foliage so they nourish the bulb for next year's bloom... Good luck but keep in mind that usually tulips best perform outdoors and people discard them after the winter blooming is passed...

So if you want to kepp'em for another year, try to fertilize them with a proper bulb fertilizer... Keep the foliage and after the plant naturally fades, keep the bulb in warm and dry potting medium...

Remember that tulips go dormant in the hot and dry soils of Turkey and Iran and this is another factor for them to produce better flowers... Very hard to achieve inside during cold winters isnt it?!... G'd luck...
Reply:that is wayyyyy too much water! when they start flowering they do not need a ton of water... maybe every week and a half ..also, tulips in soil are oneof the bulb flowers that just do not have the lasting look like for instance...daffodil, etc

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