another question about amaryllis

updated mon 31 jan 05

Carol Jensen on wed 26 jan 05

I have read that one fertilizes amaryllis only when the flower stalk starts shooting.

However, Bargyla's bulbs are awfully small for four-year-olds and they give me no blossoms yet. Something tells me that I ought to be fertilizing them most of the year, just so they will grow bigger. Not in the dormant time, nor when the leaves start, but the rest of the year?

Commercial bulbs give blossoms after 3 years as far as I know...

Carol

kathryn marsh on mon 31 jan 05

Commercial bulbs are kept in the warm and fed all the year round until they
reach flowering size. You can start feeding them with a very weak liquid
feed as soon as the leaves start

kathryn