Amaryllis 'Anglo-American hybrids' seedling being repotted.

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Amaryllis ‘Anglo-American hybrids’ seedling being repotted.

I’ve just realized while browsing through my plants that I’d forgotten to write about my Amaryllis ‘Anglo-American hybrids’ seedling!

On March 19th 2014 I finally got around to potting them on:

While searching for a photo from 2013, so as to find out when I last transplanted them (or better said, when I transplanted them for the first time!) I was astonished to see it was on the very same day last year (2013)! I had no idea!

Amaryllis Anglo-American seedlings 19th March 2013:

So on the same day but a year later they were planted up in 5" pots. They will stay in them for another year & then in 2015 (19th March???) I’ll move them on to their final pots for flowering, perhaps during April 2015.

Amaryllis Anglo-American seedlings 19th March 2013:

I ended up with 20 pots before I ran out of both pots & compost!:

There are about 6 still in their tiny pots from last year. I’m afraid they will have to stay in them for another month till I can take all my other 50+ pots of my other Amaryllis down to the allotment for the summer. These were also grown from seed but have flowered every year for the past 4 years.

A little history:

These ‘Anglo-American hybrids’ were sown almost exactly 3 years ago on May 1st 2012.

They germinated very well & remained in their seedtray for nearly a year until I transplanted them into 2 1/2" square black pots. 15 of these fit in a seed tray.

See how much they had progressed by August 2013:

By October 2013 they were becoming big plants!:

I’m going to be in real trouble come October! The ‘Anglo-American hybrids’ Amaryllis seedlings will stay at home this summer but I’ve no idea what I’m going to do when I bring the others back home from the allotment about the middle of October! Where am I going to put 80 pots???

We live in a small flat & already the three windowsills are so full of Amaryllis plants they have to be stacked in tiers three pots high! Except when the leaves begin to grow in April/May my poor wife never says anything then she gets a bit “anxious” about the windows being so covered up she can’t see out of them! I tell her that about the middle of May I’ll take them down to the allotment for the summer. She then resigns herself to not being able to look outside till then!

Amaryllis in 1st bedroom window:

Amaryllis in 2nd bedroom window:

Amaryllis in kitchen window:

The kitchen window is 3m(10ft) long so I need two photos to get them all in!:

To finish off this blog, here are a few of my Amaryllis on our living room table, in March:

A month later:

I hope you find this blog interesting but I’d love to hear what you think!

• 29 Apr, 2014
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