I believe it’s an amaryllis that is wax coated. It doesn’t need water it doesn’t need any kind of care because of the wax covering. The downside is that it may not come back in the following year although I have seen instances when they do just that in spite of the constraints of the wax coating. Just keep it in bright light and it will do its thing. You’ll have beautiful flowers before too long.
Mini_Chives
Hippeastrum, sold as amaryllis. For now, nothing. When it’s done flowering, you can try to take off the wax and shove the bulb in some soil. don’t plant too deep. It’ll take a while for it to reflower.
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Ecstatic_Eye_7015
Just take the red wax off the bulb
Ecstatic_Eye_7015
Cut the wax off and pot it
motherfudgersob
Mutilated amaryllis. I guess the wax is to prevent water loss and allow one bloom. Take it off (the wax) and put it in a pot. Put it outside (in the ground if you like) in the spring. Dig up in August September and put in refrigerator (cut off leaves and roots). You might get another indoors bloom next Christmas or it might need two years of regenerating. You are forcing the bulb just as wit Lilly whites or others but makes for a nice dead-of-winter splash of color.
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I believe it’s an amaryllis that is wax coated. It doesn’t need water it doesn’t need any kind of care because of the wax covering. The downside is that it may not come back in the following year although I have seen instances when they do just that in spite of the constraints of the wax coating. Just keep it in bright light and it will do its thing. You’ll have beautiful flowers before too long.
Hippeastrum, sold as amaryllis. For now, nothing. When it’s done flowering, you can try to take off the wax and shove the bulb in some soil. don’t plant too deep. It’ll take a while for it to reflower.
that’s where ketchup comes from
Just take the red wax off the bulb
Cut the wax off and pot it
Mutilated amaryllis. I guess the wax is to prevent water loss and allow one bloom. Take it off (the wax) and put it in a pot. Put it outside (in the ground if you like) in the spring. Dig up in August September and put in refrigerator (cut off leaves and roots). You might get another indoors bloom next Christmas or it might need two years of regenerating. You are forcing the bulb just as wit Lilly whites or others but makes for a nice dead-of-winter splash of color.