A lot of energy stored away in the bulb. After it’s done flowering, it won’t survive for much longer. You could try getting off the wax cover and plant it in actual soil, if you want it to survive. If you let it like this, it will be ready for the trash in a few weeks/months.
SaveItUp1998
These are so beautiful.
I have one that I peeled and planted. They grow huge fan-like leaves. Leave them until the fall, then move them to a darker location and stop watering. The bulb will re-absorb from the leaves and they will turn brown and die. Cut them off and put the bulb in a dark, dry place, preferably in a cardboard box with paper.
Replant/start watering and bring out after 8-10 weeks or late November/early December. She will wake up and put out those big bloom spikes with flowers.
Enjoy!
Shifu_Ekim
Odd the leaf for this amaryllis are missing ,should have large long leafs how the plants gets sunlight .
It’s a bulb can live in unusual areas as it’s a bulb
barba_barba
I had the same bulb, but in my case it just grew leaves and then rotted. Not sure what I’ve done wrong. To try saving it I peeled and planted it. Made it worse, it died soon after
UpperCardiologist523
It will die soon. Unless.. you take of the wax and plant it half-way into soil. Let the bulb draw the juices back from the flower stalks, then cut them off. Water when soil is dry. Don’t let it stay wet. And if the buttom of it is cut, you might have to leave it on the kitchen counter for a day to callus, before planting it. Remember, only half way into soil. And you just have to worry about the wax on the bottom. The rest will crack and come off as it grows.
For every season, the bulb will grow in size, and allow for more and bigger flowers.
I feel sad they doom them to death like this, but that’s consumerism.
Mine is 5 years now.
xmonkey13
I got these last year at Costco. I waited til like spring or summer and placed them in a small pot like barely inch around the bulb. The leaves now are like over 2 ft long. No flowers yet but damn the leaves really grew to be big and long.
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A lot of energy stored away in the bulb. After it’s done flowering, it won’t survive for much longer. You could try getting off the wax cover and plant it in actual soil, if you want it to survive. If you let it like this, it will be ready for the trash in a few weeks/months.
These are so beautiful.
I have one that I peeled and planted. They grow huge fan-like leaves. Leave them until the fall, then move them to a darker location and stop watering. The bulb will re-absorb from the leaves and they will turn brown and die. Cut them off and put the bulb in a dark, dry place, preferably in a cardboard box with paper.
Replant/start watering and bring out after 8-10 weeks or late November/early December. She will wake up and put out those big bloom spikes with flowers.
Enjoy!
Odd the leaf for this amaryllis are missing ,should have large long leafs how the plants gets sunlight .
It’s a bulb can live in unusual areas as it’s a bulb
I had the same bulb, but in my case it just grew leaves and then rotted. Not sure what I’ve done wrong. To try saving it I peeled and planted it. Made it worse, it died soon after
It will die soon. Unless.. you take of the wax and plant it half-way into soil. Let the bulb draw the juices back from the flower stalks, then cut them off. Water when soil is dry. Don’t let it stay wet. And if the buttom of it is cut, you might have to leave it on the kitchen counter for a day to callus, before planting it. Remember, only half way into soil. And you just have to worry about the wax on the bottom. The rest will crack and come off as it grows.
For every season, the bulb will grow in size, and allow for more and bigger flowers.
I feel sad they doom them to death like this, but that’s consumerism.
Mine is 5 years now.
I got these last year at Costco. I waited til like spring or summer and placed them in a small pot like barely inch around the bulb. The leaves now are like over 2 ft long. No flowers yet but damn the leaves really grew to be big and long.