Hippeastrum bukasovii Blooming!
joshy46013
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Hippeastrum striatum blooming in the garden
Comments (12)Thanks! I get containers from a lot of places: Baker Nursery (great for colorful glazed Talavera pots), Berridge Nursery, Lowes Hardware, Home Depot, Shady Way Nursery (out in AJ but great plants and a nice selection of unusual pots), just about anywhere really. I try to stick to terracotta and talavera or red glazed pots, just to try to keep things from being too scattered colorwise (for the pots anyway, anything goes when it comes to plants!). Thanks for looking/commenting! Happy gardening (and pot shopping!), Grant. Here is a link that might be useful: Pics, so far, from my garden April 2012...See MoreHippeastrum striatum blooming in the garden
Comments (18)Thanks for the comments! Josh, here's a closer pic of the flowers in the vase. Since they opened indoors instead of outdoors, the colors are not as vibrant as the ones that formed and opened outdoors (pretty common with clivias and other flowers too, which I know you know). The whole pot is all from half a dozen seeds from the same pot, so maybe there's some variation? In any case, here's a closer view plus a few of several blooms in the pot. The pot seems to want to do several blooms open and then new ones rather than one big explosion of blooms. I'm not sure I'm disappointed by that, as it means a longer display. Happy gardening everyone, Grant Flower in vase pic above, starting to fade with white creeping in. Several blooms open....See MoreNew blooms on Amsterdam hippeastrum
Comments (5)Yeah, I agree that I could never capture the true red on my blooms, regardless of whether it's Red lion, Royal velvet, or anything... But sure, this one will be spectacular once all the blooms on the scape opens. It looks like I will have 4 blooms together and 2 others a little bit later on. Deepak, it did give one scape a little while ago, this is the second one. I don't see any emerging next, though I do want to...hehehe. Xuan...See MoreWhat's The Earliest You've Had Hippeastrum Bloom From Seed?
Comments (8)Greetings from Germany,and thank you so much for your almost instant feedback, and for your appreciation. At first and generally, I suggest that we should discontinue the era of "Sir" now - as nice as it was, it was disturbing to another garden friend though. So, I apppreciate to be Hans-Werner (pronunciation: [HunsVairnair] My suggestion and "promise" is actually based on EXPERIENCE. I forgot to mention this. Besides some kindergardens of DIP seedlings, I had even (12) seedlings of (18 of) a TET knight Star lily in blooms (=67%) after 2 years, but this was a particular case, because the parent ("PapDon1", selfpollinated) was a special, "regenerated" TET out of crossbreeding H.papilio with "Donau" iow: DIP x TET, and it was very VIGOROUS. From the few documentaries on "hippeastrum kindergartens" that I perceive them occasionally, I can conclude, that the main imperfectness, that it will considerably delay growth and maidenblooms, respectively, is sowing seeds / replanting tiny seedlings into SHALLOW containers/trays. You will accomplish the major success with pots or balcony boxes, that are 12 and more cm in height. It is crucial, to make them seedlings grow as fast as possible, FROM the very start on. Watering should be applied as "CYCLING"[namely between wet and dry] that is, RINSE thoroughly, until a lot of water drains out of the bottom holes. With a volume of lukewarm water, including dilute feeding, that equals 1/2 to 1 container/substrate volume (!) Then, let the the substrate dry until its surface will become bright again. Although this sounds trivial, I can conclude from the appearance of the substrate surface in pictures, that this measure is generally not consequently applied. I regret that my OWN breeding activities were / are largely impaired through my DEPRESSIONS. Solely to indicate this CIRCUMSTANCE that it is intended as an explanation for you, but not as an ignition for DISCUSSING this issue. Things appear to be getting a little bit better now, though ;)...See MoreRainforestGuy
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