Amaryllis

[mothhawk]

I find the same, Babru. Plus, no matter where I stand the pots, or how high I raise them from the ground, I get tiger worms in them. I wish they would stay in the compost bins!

[Babru]

This was a thread about amaryllis, but has diverged into many interesting topics....

Speaking of tiger worms, I get them at the top of my hotbin. When we take material out to spread as a mulch etc, loads of worms come with it. I've always wondered if they can survive in the garden, or am I dooming them to a chilly death?

[Nicos]

Am happy for the thread to flow laterally, but just coming back to the amaryllis again…yesterday I chopped off some of the withering flowers from a second flower stem, only to notice it had 6 flowers in the cluster and a small, potential flower bud. Wish I’d taken a photo!

I’m feeding them all now with Banana skin water to see if that also brings them on for next year

[Nicos]

And… I’ve just spotted 6 flowers formed on the second spike of a different one

[Nicos]

And here’s another one with 6 flowers!
I thought they only came with 3-4 …
View from above….

[Snoop Puss]

^You're clearly doing something right, Nicos. Congratulations.

[Containergardener]

I have one this year I got as a present, hopefully I won't kill it off before it flowers.

[Containergardener]

It is still alive, in fact it has some extra shoots i assume to be the flower stems

[Nicos]

^^^ great news!

All mine have finished flowering and the ones I tried to bring on for Xmas are coming up blind so I’m going to follow advice on here to see if they’ll flower this coming winter!

[mothhawk]

My amaryllis has 4 flowers open now and another stem still in bud. That's just five weeks from starting it (on Boxing Day).

[Nicos]

Nice one MH!

[mothhawk]

Here's a pic...

[mothhawk]

One of my others that flowered about May time last year has started to grow a bud now.

[Nicos]

Lovely colour!

[mothhawk]

It's very photogenic, Nicos, it doesn't look half so pretty in real life, what shows up as white on the petals is really a sickly pale greeny colour. I had already decided to let it die after flowering until I saw the how well it looked in the photo.