Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Tony Willis on December 31, 2009, 11:13:11 AM
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The first flowering of a plant I received as a gift earlier in the year.One I had wanted for a long time and it has certainly lived up to my expectations.
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Congratulation Tony !!!
I grow some Eucharis but I have never managed to get flowers
How do you treat your plant ?
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Hans I thought you would like it and I am very pleased with it,it is beautiful.
Cultivation has been a bit strange. In about June I left it in full sun in the sun lounge.It got hot and dry and it burned of all its leaves which I thought was a disaster. I then put it in a shady room and kept it well watered. Since the autumn it has sat there looking very healthy in a room with night time temperatures of 8c only rising to about 12c during the day. This is far lower than recommended but it has grown new leaves and flowered.
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Congratulations on getting it to flower Tony, something I never succeeded in doing.
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From memory, they need to dry out a bit to trigger flower formation. IF memory serves me correctly, changes in temperature trigger it as well. The time I have had them flower in the past (before one year when I left them out a couple of days too long and they got frosted) was straight after I had brought them in from their shady summer home under our massive magnolia in the back yard. There, they probably got a bit dryish in late summer, and the temperatures started to drop down. As frosts threatened I brought them inside and a couple of years I got flowers within the next fortnight.
Since I lost my original lot I have been given bulbs twice and for some reason never got them to establish here. No idea why, but it has been most disappointing. They're gorgeous flowers, and wonderful "tropical" looking broad green leaves as well.
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Cultivation has been a bit strange. In about June I left it in full sun in the sun lounge.It got hot and dry and it burned of all its leaves which I thought was a disaster. I then put it in a shady room and kept it well watered. Since the autumn it has sat there looking very healthy in a room with night time temperatures of 8c only rising to about 12c during the day. This is far lower than recommended but it has grown new leaves and flowered.
I grow all my Eucharis ( and relatet ) in summer outside in my garden in the shade - in winter I take it in the house and let it with 15° .....they are always evergreen.....
Hans
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In my experience they go to rest in late summer, yellowing the most part of the leaves, and the temperatures go down. After that I put the pots inside, warmer and humyd and they regrow and flower. The scent is wonderful!
Alberto
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Tony, what a beautiful flower, another plant that I have never heard of , does it have a nice perfume, it would be such a shame if it didn't.
Angie :)
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I know Alberto says it has a wonderful scent but I can detect nothing at all.Maybe it needs a bit of warmth and so do I.
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Mine was a lovely perfume too, although quite delicate. A "clean" smell, fresh and vaguely citrusy, at least in my memory anyway. It has been a few years since I have experienced it so it often makes the memory a little better than the reality. ;D ;D
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There are a whole vase full of the flowers here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4795.msg129911#msg129911 ..... lots of super amaryllids in that thread, too! 8)
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I used to have a pot of three but stupidly left them outside for too long and frost got them
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My plant has decided to flower again and has produced three spikes.
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It looks in superb health, Tony.
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Hi Tony,
I wasn't too impressed with the single flower you showed at the begining of this thread, but now that I have seen the whole thing in all it's glory I have changed my mind. That is fantastic. There are so many things on this forum that I would like, and for various reasons couldn't have. This is one of those.
Congratulations.
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Wonderful plant Tony ! How do you feed it ?
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Wonderful plant Tony ! How do you feed it ?
I have kept it very well watered all summer and I have given it some B&Q multi purpose plant food a few times,but not regularly.
I let it dry of slightly in the spring and have kept it in the sun lounge (joke) where it gets filtered light through the polycarbonate roof for the summer. On a few days it has been in the 80's in there.