Hippeastrum species
Lyn Edwards (Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:00:43 PST)

Kym,
I hope you are safe following cyclone this morning,
Lyn
Caberra

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From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of kym stone
Sent: Saturday, 25 December 2010 9:15 AM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hippeastrum species

Thanks Jim,
I am at alt. approx 500m, bulbs are about the size of large hens eggs, but a
friend who lives on the coast has bulbs the same age that are larger than
tennis balls and offsetting like crazy.

kym
Very wet near Cairns, North Queensland

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