Hippeastrum species
J.E. Shields (Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:27:43 PST)

Hi,

They are both evergreen. The aulicum can use a month of drying off in
summer to help initiate bloom in winter -- I have some aulicum seedlings in
the greenhouse blooming for the first time right now.

I think two years old is still too young to expect blooms on Hippeastrum
species seedlings.

My greenhouses are too cold in winter for the calyptratum, I'm afraid, and
have too low a relative humidity as well, I suspect. H. calyptratum has
never bloomed for me, but I keep hoping.

Jim Shields
in cold and snowy Westfield, Indiana
USA

At 03:46 PM 12/24/2010 +1000, you wrote:

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