Nice white roots.
Roots have the contractile ability to pull the bulb down into the soil. I helped them a bit by adding more soil over the top so they don't have to waste as much energy and the soil level comes up, having settled a bit.
All smug about my project, I thought to look in what I thought was an empty vegetable drawer and found the rotting remains of a half dozen forgotten pears.
Ethylene gas! Horrors. My bulbs may shrink and the embryonic flowers inside the bulbs may be damaged or dead. They'll remain despite this, so that I can know first hand the real effects of ripening fruit on bulbs, verifying what every extension site says. I have not seen actual results of a trial, so this is mine.
There should still be foliage, so the bulbs if flower-less this spring can still be planted out in the garden to grow on when I determine whether there are no buds. The next year (2016) they should bloom in the garden as usual, blooms formed in spring of 2015.
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There will still be hyacinths in the garden. previous years' bulbs. This is a ten dollar experiment that I would not have done if I'd looked in both fridge drawers before I started.
