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

Gitagal wrote:
Welllll----- someone has to post somewhere...right?

Seems winter has us all in a grip the last few days. SO cold! In the teens...
When it is so cold--no one will garden outside--but this is the time to garden inside.
I was going to continue organizing my seeds (I sure am procrastinating on this)
but ended up getting all my Amaryllis pots ready to bring upstairs.
SO--that\'s what I did. All 9 of them! Big and small....

I had already brought all the pots in back in late October when I brought everything in.
Then they sat, ignored, for a couple of months.
Then-I did the cleaning up, trimming off a lot of the straggly roots and re-potting in fresh soil . Trimmed back the \"necks\" too. Now--everything all nice and neat..
Had to toss a couple of the Pups as they seemed to have some kind of black crud
just under the bulb scales. Looked like rot--but it could have also been some vermin
living in the bulbs all summer. Split off the bigger Pups and gave them their own pots.
Some were too crowded--so I potted those on roomier pots as well.

Then, there they sat again until I noticed vague signs of new growth. One even had
2 bloom pips sticking up! OH OHH! Time to bring them up in the LR,water them and
see how fast they will start popping. I bet withing a week most of them will show
green somewhere. Most likely--leaves.
In last weeks Article here--someone wrote about Amaryllis care.
One interesting thing I had never heard before was that when the leaves start growing
from the bulbs--so do the roots at the bottom of the bulbs. Hmmm--interesting!
Of course--I presume-- that applies to new, bare bulbs. My bulbs all live on and on
in their pots and they always have roots at the bottom. I actually cut hand-full off!

Now I wait. Hope to see some of you post here too--kind of a continuation to our
previous topics. Gita

Here are the 9 pots I just brought up. Sorry--they are a bit out of focus--but I had to
wait for the camera to flash--and then they always come out this way.