You've got to see this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, you can imagine my surprize when I spotted this gorgeous creature this morning! Two years ago while in line at Home Depot, I purcheased this blood lily bulb...it was an impulse buy...like gum at the grocery checkout. I planted it in a pot and it grew lots of leaves which then just died down. so much for that...I stuck it pot and all in the wild ferns and forgot about it. So far after reading about it today, I did NOTHING right for it. A week ago I noticed that its empty pot had a little sprout. I just thought it would be leaves again so I forgot about it for the time being. and them this morning! This is one of the most amazing things that I have ever seen! Does anyone know how long it lasts? I did notice that it has two more sprouts and I read that it is tuberous. Should I seperate the other ones coming up or just put the whole thing in a bigger pot? Will it just have the one bloom? It is getting growth in the center but I think that might just be leaves. My experience leads me to believe that they bollom the second year? I am just blown away with this! If I had babied it, who knows what it would have done, but it got NO cae in the shade and went through winter that this year went down to 30...so this fellow has proven the "experts" wrong all the way around!

PS It's 8 1/2 inches across!

WOW!! that is just too cool :)
I'm sorry I don't have any advise for you as I don't know anything about those at all :(
It sure is pretty though........just think, if you would have babied it, it may not have made it........LOL

Dale - the flowers last a week or so, not very long. I haven't had great success with separating, but that was my fault. Maybe you could do a combination, move to a bigger pot and separate one of the offshoots and see what happens.

http://www.bulblady.com/bulblady/jan99/notalily.html
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG029
http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/gt/bulbprop/bulbprop.htm

that is tooo cool......

Probably only something in Florida right? It looks tropical

what a nice surprise!!

BEEEEEEautiful!!!!!!!!!! WOW!

Dale,

I planted mine in early spring and it bloomed late summer the first year. Mine was planted 10-12" below soil level. It took 3 years for it to produce a baby bulb. Lost both this past winter(heaved)!

Mystic and I just got some of these at a local flower show. The lady told us they would send up a flower stalk first and leaves after that. She said in consequent years, the number of flower stalks would increase. You should have seen her stand! Huge vases full of these and others of Tuberoses. The smell was awesome! Some of the flowers were nearly the size of basketballs.

The second year, mine bloomed first and now is sending out leaves. Only leaves the first year though.