Can you make your own fibre compost for hyacinths. I cannot find a bag small enough for my indoor container.

No idea, Ackers - bulb fibre is usually sold in small bags, but there's always more than enough for 3 or 4 pots - I just used to save it for next year, or shove it on the garden if I didn't use it.

Given that you will be putting them in garden next year I'd put in composted bark or something similar.

simpal- dig nice erth frm garden-putin cookin bole with lots water.
Boil for5 mins.
drainof water an put erth in flowerpot.
when cold, plant hyacinths.
add compost/fertiliser, an bring indor.
job dun

do I rember seeing hyacinth glasses shaped like an hour glass with the bulbin the top and water in the bottom which the roots grew in to, or am I dreaming.

I think we have just had a blog on that Cliffo?

i still have mine from my childhood and they are still available for sale.

Try mixing the dust from your hoover in with the soil. I empty my dyson in the compost this time of year to plant my bulbs, cheap and recycled!!

Derekf - never heard your suggestion before care to expand on>

Indoor (prepared) hyacinths are meant to flower just the once and all the energy for flowering is already stored in the bulb. The only purpose of the fancy bulb fible compost is to make the little devils stand upright!
Any medium will do as a compost as long as it will hold a little moisture.

Yep, agree with that Bulbaholic - I've planted them in perfectly ordinary multi purpose compost before now - its just a bit harder to not let the compost get too wet.

DRC I must read the blogs

Along with 100 lines, Cliffo? lol

I must be thick just gon through the blogs ,still non the wiser Bamboo you promist to keep me in next time lol

Thinking about it grit or gravel would probable do as well as anything to keep the bulb upright in the pot!

it kill bug that crepe out off erth in to room-standad prac in trropic-also stop disese transfar-sterol soil.

Think gravel or grit is easier :-) Given that the bulb has been forced as is going to be seriously depleted after flowering it is almost as easy to treat them as 'annuals' and bin after they have finished flowering. We certainly don't want the garden cluttered up with what will revert to spanish bluebells.

beuty is alwayin the eye of beholder MG, an few can ignor a feld of Hyacinthus non-sciptus in watever guise, mix with celandine an wood enemone, beneth decidous tree. theer agin, wile nothin is as beutiful as somethin, as gardners, it is somethin that alway atract us, not nothin. praps some spanish bluebell is ok tho. :)

Derek I have no wish to ignore a field of Hyacinthoides non-scripta, the English bluebell, I have great concerns over Hyacinthoides hispanica, the spanish bluebell which is what cultivated hyacinths are. This is cross breeding with the H non-scripta and because it is more vigourous could eventually wipe out the native species. It is viewed by many as an invasive species, it is also strongly recommended that people do not plant H. hispanica in or near woodland where native H. non-scripta grows to protect the species.

sory MG, i forget my latin gramar somimte- your point i no and AGREe,an theerfor the reesonfor stating Hy.Non.Scrit. i think you mo understan me, becos i no cleer-sory. beter prahsp to say; hispanicus is better than nothing, but i think you may not like this.

Of course H hispanica is better than nothing but we do seriously need to protect the native H non-scripta Derekf. You do better with your latin than a lot of other members who do not have your excuse or problem!

I will always endeavour to understand what you are trying to say to us all :-)

You can make yr own bulb fibre. Peat or a substitute perlite and a little ground charcoal - no food.