Couple Hippeastrum questions

Hans-Werner Hammen haweha@hotmail.com
Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:16:57 PDT

Hello Walnik;your "Red Lion" is an "Orange Sovereign"The largest Flowers that I ever obtained, 30 cm in diameter, were from "Appleblossom", "forced" outdoors in April, the temperatures (6 to 12degCelsius) even lower than the previous storage temperatures (13 to 17deg Celsius) indoors.  
 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/… Sincerely, Hans-Werner > From: annamwal@interia.pl
> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:34:10 +0100
> Subject: Re: [pbs] Couple Hippeastrum questions
> 
> Hi Jude,
> I can recommend you a book: V. M. Read, Hippeastrum, the gardener's 
> amaryllis, Timber Press, Portland, Cambridge 2004. But one must know that 
> the flower size strongly depends on growing conditions. For example, the 
> ‘Red Lion’ in the book is described as having 3 - 4 flowers, 16 - 18 cm in 
> diameter. My ‘Red Lion’ looked exactly so in 2006. Next year flowers was 
> even smaller - 14 cm. But next years it was grown by my mother and this 
> spring had 5 - 6 flowers per scape, over 20 cm in diameter.
> Look at this: 
> http://mwalnik.wodip.opole.pl/botanika/…
> 
> Marek Walnik
> Glucholazy, Poland
 		 	   		  



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