Hi all. Happy new year from Tennessee. Was wondering if anyone has any secrets to getting amaryllis bulbs to rebloom? I dutifully did my research regarding getting the bulbs to go dormant, then storage, then repotting. Lots of beautiful foliage but no blooms Any suggestions?
West Michigan here. I leave the bulbs in the same soil, kick them outside for the summer. Bring in the garage for fall to start drying out, put in a cold closet indoors in the dark. Take out usually mid January unless some are early. I bring in and set in a dark warm corner. NO water, no repotting. I wait on that until after they are done blooming. Works for me. If you water too soon the buds will not emerge you will only get leaves. When the buds start emerging they get just a little water to keep the soil and roots moist.
Saying it better and shorter is never repot when they wake up. Everything is stored in the bulb to get blooms. Repot sometime in early summer.
Ping to Post 47, Mom! Help is on it’s way, Murrie!
In my experience, failure to bloom is usually due to three things: The bulb itself is planted too deeply in the pot*, or not enough fertilizer once it wakes up again in the late summer/early fall for a winter bloom, or not a long enough ‘chill’ where you just ignore it for months on end and then remember it before it’s too late, LOL!
*This happens with spring garden bulbs, too. (Tulips and Daffs, etc) If bulbs aren’t divided and moved (or shared!) after so many years, all that extra mulch of soil or straw or whatever else the wind blows in (leaves), the bulb thinks it’s planted too deep and will put up leaves but no blooms. Be ruthless with spring flowering blubs - and Amaryllis! ;)
But! “Be kind to our web-footed friends, for that duck may be somebody’s mother!” ;)
(Too many years spent at Summer Camp, singing around the camp fire, LOL!)