r/AmaryllisBulbs

First pic, Giant's Row, they're a little late to the party and some will be culled after flowering (the double, one of the reds and one of the two red-white)

Second pic, seedpod that is farthest along, one of the very few crosses not involving a striped leaf parent

3: pods on my own hybrid (Frana's First) taking shape

4: pods on Mystica (70% successrate across 35ish flowers, 3 striped leaf pollen parents)

5: Sprekelia formosissima, pollinated by the white with double flowers, only other nonstriped i used as pollen parent

6: Saffron with some well developing pods, smallest cultivar in my collection.

7: dark red taking its pollen well, might get a 4/4 on 3 different crosses

8: Hippeastrum iguazuanum pollinated succesfully by Frana's First (own hybrid, striped leaf and mostly white flower) and Sonatini black red (dark red flower, leaf pic is #10).

9: Quito x Doublet

10: close-up of pods on iguazuanum

11: Saffron (hand for scale)

12 & 13: iguazuanum

14: Frana's First

Poor girl. She was doing SO well. Gave me 12 flowers, spikes almost 4 feet tall. Leaves about 3 feet. Fat bulb. All the leaves were upright. She even gave me a baby!

Then I had a surge in my ongoing thrips-pocalypse and lost track of her health. She was doing SO well that she was all root no soil in that pot. I didn't realize until too late and the water was stuck in the middle and her roots rotted.

I repotted and did all the treatment, but now she's got just a few scraggly root bits, not enough to support her once mighty greens. So she's lost all but one it seems. I just finally chopped them because she's stressed and they need to go so she can work on growing more roots.

What a bummer. I hope she will make it through ok. She's my first ever bulb and has put up with all my ignorant shit. Her bulb is small now, but firm. She should take time to grow new roots and maybe then grow more leaves. I plan to not make her go dormant this winter and just let her accumulate energy all winter.

Hello! This was the first year with my amaryllis in the ground and it bloomed beautifully as seen in the first picture. Shortly after the blooms dried up, I was horrified to see the leaves chomped as well as the stem chomped by what I assume was a nearby black grasshopper. I see one new little leaf forming so I feel confident that the bulb is intact but I’m wondering if anyone has any true and tried tips to keep it safe and to keep it healthy. I feel like tips online were inconsistent. Thank you for listening to my concern :)

Why do some leaf tips (or whatever their proper name is) do this?

Thanks in advance.

This is the amaryllis of the day, 'Dancing Queen'

Hope you like it!

Have a great weekend