Tulips! Specialty YPSI Grown

The fan is running to keep their stems strong, the LED lights are nice and bright, it is warmer in here than the rest of the house-who needs a Tropical Getaway in January, I have shelves and shelves of speciality, peony type tulips in my office/guest room:)!

I tried this before. Last year. They bloomed at the same time as my hoop house tulips did and were mostly crap. Frustrated with loss of my own solo effort, and inspired by Emily and Linda from the Tulip Workshop, and the fact I adore these flowers, I bit the $1200 bullet and signed up for the course! Golly I know that is a lot of money, oh and that’s basically a million dollars to a flower farmer!

So this year I can ask all the questions, get all the answers, immediately, I’m in the hive mind, and I have access to the most perfect bulbs I have ever seen, making the whole process LOVELY. It is kinda easy mixed with a few complicated bits like we need actually need 3 cooling spaces for the earliest tulips, daily disease/ /temperature/humidity monitoring(all stages have 5 degree thresholds), watering crates over hard wood floors, oh and lifting these suckers is not a joke, and the tight butt cheeks when the power goes out and DTE says our power is on;) After all that, it is actually DELIGHTFUL.