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Amaryllis Done Blooming? Here's What to Do // Garden Answer
hey guys Laura with garden answer
welcome back to my channel I wanted to
talk today about amaryllis and what we
need to do with them after they're done
blooming so I still have a few of them
that are blooming a little bit these are
the snow white these with the double
white amaryllis that I was so excited to
plant they did really really beautifully
they each had to bloom sucks and there's
another one coming up right here this
one's kind of looking a tad bit sad that
the flowers feel nice and then these
ones right here you can see what the
blooms really did look like right here
and they were just stunning I love this
variety but said this branch or this
stock that those blooms Mehran got so
tall and I didn't have it staked quite
right and it bent over so I cut them off
and put them in water and they do make
for a really good cut flower and then on
this side I have a black pearl and you
can see the blooms are just now starting
to fade so I've got two that I need to
prune off and then two that still look
pretty good but you can see the house
dark and beautiful that color is and
then I have a couple amaryllis that were
sent to me this one right here was from
gardeners supply company and it was a
beautiful kind of a duo with a white and
red but it was a really kind of faint
red and the petals of real were really
pointy and it was double absolutely
gorgeous
so I've one stock that's done and then I
have another one that's starting right
here nice little chubby one I'm excited
about that and then this one right in
the back here with some birdies best and
it's already done it's saying it had to
bloom stalks that was the first one to
bloom for me and now it has produced
these spectacular looking leaves they
are so healthy and beautiful looking so
first of all before I get into kind of
aftercare I just want to show you how to
prune off the withering blooms because
I've been asked that a few times so what
I do is I just come in and cut the bloom
off right at the at the top of the stock
so right at the base of the bloom there
just like that what you want to do is
get those off because if you leave them
on the plant will send energy right into
this area here this little knob that's
where it's going to produce it seed and
you don't want the plant wasting energy
trying to produce seed you want it to
send energy into its flowers into
creating new blooms if it's got another
bud or nice leaves so I always keep up
on that and keep those off so I need to
do that
slice on this one and then on this one
here since this stock is done I cut mine
off right above the neck of the bulb so
I just come in with my clippers of
scissors and cut just like that and
that's all you need to do so I'll just
keep watering these normally like I have
been which is about once a week and I
water just until I see water coming into
the saucer so that's about it on that
and then as far as aftercare goes as
soon as all the blooms are done what I
do is I just treat them as a normal
house plant so they stay inside now this
information is probably a little more
geared toward colder climates because I
live in a zone size so I treat them
probably different than somebody who
lives in a zone 9 or somewhere where
these will actually survive outside I
think these are zone 9 to 11 correct me
if I'm wrong I've also heard that
they'll survive if survived in his own
age if they're planted in the ground I
don't know if that is true but here in
zone side they will not survive outside
so they stay inside as a house plant and
they just produce these gorgeous leaves
I think they're really pretty plant just
even without blooms so they'll stay in
the sunniest spot I can provide them
inside until we're after the last frost
which is usually mid-may for us then I
move them outside and they stay in a
spot that gets Morning Sun and a little
bit of afternoon Sun and then if they're
in dappled shade for the rest of the day
and they do really really well for me
out there I treat them like all my other
potted plants they get watered a little
more frequently because it is so warm
here as far as when you get closer to
the fall month that's when it gets just
a little bit trickier just because you
have to follow a schedule there are two
steps to get these things to bloom again
you have to create a dormancy period so
you need to simulate some kind of
dormancy for them and order them to form
a new bud and then it takes six two
weeks after that for them to bloom so if
you want them worming by Christmas you
have to follow a pretty tight schedule
so what I do is September first thread
around that first week of September I
pull all my amaryllis inside usually we
haven't frosted yet but I still pull
them inside I clean any yellow or dead
leaves off but I leave anything that
looks nice because that bulb will suck
any energy down from those leaves to
help feed the bulb and produce a new bud
I'll give it a really good watering and
then I put it into a dimly lit area
that's like right around 55 degrees to
like a basement we have a root cellar
outside and a basement that both stays
pretty too
lise so I'll put it in that spot and
then just leave it alone so all I did
was clean it up and give it some water
and put it in a thermos key period and
then I set an alarm on my phone six to
eight weeks later to go pull my
amaryllis out which usually ends up
being about mid to late November so at
that point you can pull it out water it
one more time clean up any leaves and
then don't water it again until you see
any new growth once you see new growth
and you can start giving it a little
water on a consistent basis like I said
I use a water mine about once a week
that can vary depending on your home and
how you heat we heat with wood heat so
dry stuff out pretty quickly and that's
pretty much it you can scrape the top
couple inches of soil off and put fresh
soil in there if you want to usually
I'll hit mine with a tiny bit of
fertilizer but they get it pretty good
in the summer time so if I forget it
it's not a big deal
there are a couple of things if you
don't see any new growth on your
amaryllis after you pull it out of the
dormancy period just give it a squeeze
right at the top of the neck and if it
feels soggy or it doesn't feel like firm
and rigid then it may have rotted or
dried out at some point and that does
happen also you might just get leaves it
happens to me sometimes sometimes the
bulbs just don't have it in them to
bloom two years in a row just follow all
the same cycle treat it as a house plant
give it a nice sunny spot and maybe the
next year follow that same schedule
given the next year it'll give you a
bloom so don't be discouraged if it
doesn't bloom for you because not all of
them will and will do updates along the
way I'll show them to you about
midsummer and show you how they're
looking and then this fall when we start
the process of the dormancy period and
all that we'll put a video out we'll put
a video together if when I do that so
that it's a reminder to you to do that
with yours as well and then you'll get a
visual of how they look and what you
need to do so anyway if you're not
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