I've been starting threads here on forcing several years. I've got a few to showcase this year as well. I took several pots out of their cold period not overly long ago and hope they soon bloom.
I have a dedicated refrigerator in the basement full and some totes on the stairway of the covered stairwell connecting the outside to the basement. Last year I was gravely concerned about the stairwell blooms as they'd been near frozen during a prolonged super cold spell. Most turned out ok but a few were no blooms or partial degraded blooms. This season I resurrected an old temperature monitor and stuck it in one of the totes hoping to be able to pull the totes into the basement when the temp dropped below 0. I did this action twice last month and preliminary assessments indicate all's well.
Covered totes in stairwell -

Uncovered 'health' check -





refrigerator -


These are the first round of the 'out of the cold period' pots:

Placed in the basement's cool temp environment (60° avg.) under fluorescent lights. They're left here till bloom. When blooms start opening, pots brought upstairs to enjoy.

Looks promising. Did you try anything new this year?

@LorettaNJ
There's 10 daffodils and 10 tulips that I've not forced before.
The brand new daffodils are Teal, Spring Pride, Orange Sunset, Color Run, Frosty Snow, Night Cap, and Watch Up. Not so new but 1st time daffs for me are Carlton, Little Oliver, and Sinopel.
First time tulips are Flaming Flag, Estatic, Bourbon Street, Slawa, Cape Town, and Escape. The others are older 1st timers - Paul Scherer, Negrita, Peppermint Stick. and Apricot Impression.
Then, there's the rest (8 of each) -
Tulips: Apricot Beauty, Purple Prince, Jaap Groot, Calgary, Analite, Raspberry Ripple, Sunny Prince, and National Velvet.
Daffodils: Snowboard, Snow Baby, Tweety Bird, Topolino, Cha Cha, Martinelle, Faith, and Minnow.
Also, some Hyancith, Allium, and an Anemone.
I think the total number of pots is around 50, 22 in stairwell, and 28 refrigerator.

This is the 4th (and last) Paperwhites forced -

Wow! That is a lot of bulb entertainment to look forward to. I almost tried a few this year but the plants I bring in take up all the room.

I'm fortunate enough to have 2/3rds of basement available to mess with plants over winter.

I have plans to increase my indoor plant real estate.

JMorth, do you keep your tulips to force again the next year? How about your paperwhites?

Really getting tired of winter! Went to a nursery yesterday. I came home with a 4" pot of a small flowered but yellow daffodil. It has 8 stems blooming plus many more coming. Also a "European" bulb garden( the bulbs are on top of the soil). It has tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and crocus. 10" pot was $13. Hyacinths have buds developing.

@Deebie
Tulips that I force are discarded after use. Tulips usually divide into 4 baby bulbs after forcing and would take many years to attain forcing size again (if and when grown under ideal conditions).
Of course there's always exceptions. One year I discarded tulip forcers onto a plant refuse pile, more got added to same pile...anyway, the tulip Mickey Mouse bloomed from there for a couple of years.
I usually plant daffodils in the garden after forcing. They may take 2 years to bloom, but often bloom the following year.
Paperwhites are always discarded after forcing. Years (and years) ago I attempted to keep one alive for re-use. It just didn't work out. I've seen one or two websites where they say it's possible.

Still waiting; last year by this time I had quite a few bloomers (if I remember correctly).
awaiting bloom

last scape from Charisma

Next hippy to bloom >

4th (and last) paperwhites to bloom this year.

Refrigerator pots not so crowded now. -

This is most of my indoor bulb show but nothing is forced. I have amaryllis that I photographed, there is a cyclamen that is blooming again and this year I brought in agapanthus. It has tried to bloom but I have been trying to keep it dormant because I had heard they are suppose to be easy to overwinter. Have you overwintered them?

I have over-wintered Agapanthus indoor for a couple of years. Mine never went dormant, I never even realized it was supposed to. My familiarity with Agapanthus was from a locale much more tropical than up here, Houston; I'd assumed they'd just be pot specimens up here, thusly, I've always let it stay active over winter under lights in the basement. I'd about given up on it ever blooming when to my absolute delight, last winter it bloomed in the basement:

I don't know which cultivar this is.
@LorettaNJ Nice Hippeastrum assortment!

Finally, first forcer of the spring bulbs - Topolino

Your agapanthus looks very healthy and beautiful. I had to go back to my source (Margaret Roach) and now I see there are two kinds of agapanthus - evergreen and not evergreen. It is of course the non-evergreen types that go dormant. I have to see what I have now. Probably non but at least I know now.

Interesting about your one season bulbs. I always resisted treating tulips like annuals but you have me thinking it could be fun to experiment more. Plus no ratty foliage.

Some of the big daffodils are blooming now, started 3-1-19:
Orange Sunset -
This one is a real beauty. The rim of the cup is changing colors.



Carlton - closer >
This particular daffodil is considered the most used daffodil in the world today.


Minnow - only an inch across for this little Tazetta daffodil.

Minnow is related to the Paperwhite Ziva -

The bulb garden I purchased is blooming beautifully! Daffodils, hyacinths and what turnedout to be muscari are all blooming. The hyacinths smell wonderful. Still waiting on the tulip bulbs to open.

Glad your Euro garden of bulbs is working out. How many total bulbs in it?

Wife reports more forcers in basement ready to bring up. I'll be going down there post-dinner...

Thanks for the link to this thread, J. I will be watching it, since I love flowers proceeding from bulbs/corms/tubers!

6 daffodils, 6 tulips, 2 hyacinths,12 muscari. The muscari is a very pretty blue.

Faith


Frosty Snow


together