The bulb was pretty good sized and there were leaves trying to start.
What I found baffling was that after I poured three cups of water into the pot and came back after an hour, I saw that the 'growing medium' didn't even come up halfway. I used a butter knife to stir it and the growing medium was mostly soggy and only came up halfway in the pot.
So I re-read the directions in case I missed anything. I didn't know if I had to add something beforehand.
Even the illustration shows that the pod was supposed to fill up the pot.
Lucky for me, I remembered some pellets from a mini-greenhouse that never got used and tossed in about eleven of them to fill the rest of the pot.
Voila! A potted Amaryllis.
Besides the lack of growing medium, what makes me nervous is how the pot has no holes. It has three little "rubber-stops" on the bottom to prevent the bottom of the pot from scratching the surface.
I guess as long as I just keep it moist and not wet, it should be fine until I get it into the ground come next spring.
Still hoping to get my hands on a white amaryllis but it seems they're not easily found for some reason.
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I planted my Christmas gift S & H Amaryllis bulb on Dec. 28, 2011. Now six weeks later, I have five beauctiful, healthy-looking, green, tall "leafs", but no sign of any flower, or a spike with a potential flower.
What now?
It probably means that it won't bloom this year. My bulb did the same thing. It sent out big beautiful leaves but no flowers.
I read a thread where everyone shared their experiences with the kits and it appears that most bulbs had bloomed while in the packages at stores.
This thread here has a picture of the blooms growing out of the packages.
After finding this out, I asked the person that got me the kit. It turns out that the kits at the store were indeed dealing with blooms pushing out but she purchased the kit that didn't have any blooms because "it'd be hard to wrap with two scapes sticking out".
I have no experience with growing amaryllis in containers so I don't know how to force them into dormancy when the time comes. I live in Zone 8 which means I can plant the amaryllis bulb into the ground when spring comes and it can stay out all year long where it'll be the happiest.
Right now, the leaves are storing energy in the bulb so make sure your amaryllis is getting all the sun it can get in a south facing window and fertilize it regularly with a fertilizer that's low in nitrogen.
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