When would you say Hippeastrum bloom?

Steve Evans via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Sat, 27 Oct 2018 10:11:45 PDT
Here in Oklahoma I have found that quite a few are winter hardy.  The large flowered hybrids tend to bloom in May outdoors here.

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  On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 11:24, Linda M Foulis<lmf@beautifulblooms.ab.ca> wrote:   Good question David,

I can't offer info on when they would bloom in their natural habitat, I
could only guess that it would be spring / summer.
Some of mine are just finished blooming, sending out second scapes and more
starting to bloom.  This is after spending the summer (our very short summer
this year) in my greenhouse, receiving little water.
I've certainly not done anything to encourage bloom and am attributing their
stint in the greenhouse for the blooms.
I belong to a FB Hippeastrum group based out of Australia, everything is
bursting into bloom down there.  Some are in garden settings, some in pots.

Linda Foulis 
N of Leslieville, AB, Canada    zone 2ish?

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Subject: [pbs] When would you say Hippeastrum bloom?

Hi,

I looked on the PBS wiki when Hippeastrum bloom, and it does not say. 
I'm searching for some text I could add to fix that.

The situation is not helped by the bulbs sold at Christmas which bloom as
soon as water is added - presumably they're forced or conditioned somehow -
but maybe information on that would help, because it would point to when
they flower naturally.




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