Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Dec 2015 into 2016, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Jeff,
You can cure the \"falling over\" by planting your Amaryllis in a heavy clay, or stone, pot.
It is worth the expense--as your A. will live in it for a long time.
Use a pot just 1\" (all around) bigger than the bulb. Leave the top 1/3rd of the bulb
above the soil. Use a gritty soil (cactus soil?) as that will hold the bulb in place better.
If the roots are all tall and tangled just trim the older roots back...selectively.
Then pot in fresh soil mix.

Here is what my Amaryllis all look like right now. They are all in my cool shop.
Because some are growing new leaves already--I need to cut the necks back NOW. Will do it today.

1--My big, old pot of 5 bulbs
2--Picture of all the smaller pots
3--Close-up of an 8\" pot that holds 2 good-size bulbs.

This last pic. will be a good example of a \"before\" and \"after\" trimming of the necks.
Will do that today as well. Gita