From: "Hans-Werner Hammen" <haweha@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum seeds
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:57:28 +0000

Greetings from Duesseldorf, Germany
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Hello Darren:

Thank you for your feedback.
I hope you can take profit from my explanations and raise great
hippeastrums
respecting my simple recommendations.
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I think that the most critical point (if it IS ever critical) is the
watering frequency.
The best results are obtained if you let the substrate dry out to the
particular stage when the leaves of (some of) the seedlings just BEGIN to
lose their surface glossiness.
The frequency of watering based on this observation gives STILL better
results than slavishly watering every 4th day!

And there is one other observation I have really no rational explanation
for:

I found out that this watering from above gives better results when I
perform that in the evening, and I put the boxes back into the light bench
not before the next morning. It seems that the wetted plants do NOT like
exposition to brightness. In this case they tend to loose their particular
surface sheen for a certain time.

I like to show you some amaryllid seedlings of one other genus:
from seeds I received, labeled as "Cyrtanthus mackenii hybr."
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These are now 7 months old.
It can be clearly seen that one of these is in an uncommon manner
surpassing
the others.
I am optimistic that this one will bloom in fall 2006.

I am looking forward to all the blooming 2- and 3-y Hippeastrums (and other
amaryllids) cultivated by the elucidated newsletter readers *g*

Gardener's amaryllis are indeed to reach bloomable state in this short time
- provided that this cultivation technique is consequently followed and the
plants are replanted in coco peat as well afterwards, with further
administering of adequate light from above - and lukewarm water from
below,
containing diluted mineral fertilizer every time.

Best wishes
Hans-Werner

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