[pbs] Amaryllis Trouble
J.E. Shields
jshields at indy.net
Sat Oct 27 09:54:13 EDT 2007
Hi C.J. and all,
First and very important, where in the wide world are you and your friend
growing your Hippeastrum? North America, Europe, South Africa? If in
North America, in Florida or in Ontario?
There is nothing obviously wrong with your friend's approach, but all the
important details are missing. Your friend unpots and plants the bulbs in
the ground when they go outdoors, right? How much sun do they get in
spring? In summer? Do they get watered regularly while growing (spring
and summer)? Do they get fertilizer at any point? Then digs them just
before frost and brings them indoors, right?
At what point does he repot them? How are they stored from bringing
indoors until first watered?
Commercial hybrid Hippeastrum (Dutch "amaryllis") should be well fed and
watered. They do not have to go totally dormant and don't have to be kept
dry for very long -- some say as little as a month. I give mine light
shade outdoors in summer, after full south sun in late winter and spring
while they are indoors. They stay in their pots, but I used to unpot them
and line out in full sun in the garden from sometime in May until first
frost. They often bloomed outdoors in about August, after having bloomed
in their pots indoors in January or February. Rebloom the following
February was, however, spotty.
The ripe bulbs should already have their buds formed when he digs them in
fall, so far as I can recall. Does anyone know different for sure?
Best wishes,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)
At 06:36 PM 10/26/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, Experts,
>
> I have been growing Amaryllis with no trouble, I bring them indoors at
> the end of the Summer, they bloom, I let them grow until they go dormant,
> I don't repot them until absolutely necessary and if I don't forget
> they're in storage in the pot I am very pleased with results.
> .........
> His Amaryllis NEVER bloom again. But they DO happen to shrink. They
> get smaller every year because of this shrinking.
>
> At what point does an Amaryllis build its Bulb Flower? Is he
> interrupting that stage over and over? rsvp
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