I too keep trying to get Eucharis to bloom. Three people I have known with luck: Person 1: SE Ohio. Inside in winter and under canopy outside all summer. All in bloom in July or August when we visited. Only plant the couple cultivated, maybe 20 pots. Person 2: received a Eucharist bloom as a high school prom wristband corsage 50 years ago. Bought a bulb soon after and it grows in the middle of her living room, never moves outside, watered and flowers every year. Person 3: sister bought bulbs, planted in pot which sits on top of her dryer in the utility room for about the last ten years. Blooms every year. Sometimes watered, never fertilized. West window but no direct sun in Seattle. Me: have been trying everything to get blooms but to no avail. Maybe I pay too much attention to them. Good luck Leo. It is a gorgeous bloom. On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM Fred Biasella via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hi Leo, > > Have you tried fertilizing it with blossom booster for a few weeks and > just before it's normal flowering period? > > Fred > ________________________________ > From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> on behalf of Leo A. > Martin via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Sent: Monday, July 13, 2026 11:21 PM > To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Cc: Leo A. Martin <oooOIOooo@protonmail.ch> > Subject: [pbs] Flowering Eucharis > > > > Does anybody have any suggestions for flowering Eucharis? I have read the > Wiki entry and I'm not convinced the recommendations for drought and > temperature stress are accurate, unless I've been applying them at the > wrong season. > > I have a Eucharis sp. I bought for my mother over 30 years ago from > Tropiflora. The original tag is gone, but I definitely recall the catalog > said they thought it has different leaves from E. amazonica. Of course, it > may be something else. > > She grew it in a window with bright indirect light and watered it all > year, most years. Ambient temperature did not vary much, around 72 degrees > F. At my suggestion she withheld watering in some Winters and allowed the > plant to drop all its leaves. It was fertilized about 5-6 times a year with > a 20-20-20 and micronutrients fertilizer at 1 teaspoon per gallon. During > this time it grew strongly and multiplied well. It produced one flower > once, during a year when it had been watered through the Winter. > > I have had it two years. I have kept it much farther from a window. I have > withheld water in Winter and allowed it to wilt between waterings one > Winter, and defoliate the other Winter. When I water in Spring it produces > a luxuriant set of leaves. My household temperatures in Winter are much > cooler than in Summer, in the 50s at night / 70s in the day. Still no > flowers. > > I wrote to Tropiflora. They replied their database does not show any > accessions other than E. amazonica. Their long-time grower has already quit > as the company shuts down, but their bromeliad specialist doesn't have any > idea what triggers flowering. > > Leo A. Martin > Phoenix Arizona USA > Zone 9? > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…