Amaryllis seed? How to grow amaryllis from seed?
How to grow amaryllis from seed?
Hello,
I hold several of these myself and a couple of them have nice sound seed pods on them, I mitt pollinated them to see what would happen.
I found out that these Amaryllis bulbs we buy at the store are not truly amaryllis bulbs but they are Hippeastrum bulbs. I will donate my source below.
The article I read is to use the floating method. I will try this when my seeds are equipped.
From what I have read it take a couple years for these seeds to develop and flower.
Hope this help...
Don't cut the flower stalk down, hand-pollinate from a different flower if you approaching. Let the seed pod swell. When it seem to start to "die" (the pod will start drying and turning yellow), open it up and remove the seed.
Plants the seeds. It will bear some years for them to grow into a bulb and get big adequate to make a flower, and you won't know what the flower will look resembling (it will not be a duplicate of the mother flower, but a hybrid). Might be fun to try, though - just to enunciate you did it.
You'll need a heck of closely of patience.
Answers: Seed pods grown-up within 4 to 5 weeks after the flower have been pollinated. Pick the pods as soon as they turn pallid and split open. Remove the black, papery seed from the pod and plant them immediately contained by pots or flats containing a well-drained medium such as vermiculite or coarse sand mixed next to peat. Cover the seeds weakly with more medium. Keep the not long planted seeds within partial shade until they germinate. Then leisurely increase the amount of light they receive until they are contained by full sun. Fertilize with a half-strength soft fertilizer solution every other week.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/EP060
Make sure you check your seeds for likelihood:
If you place an Amaryllis seed between your thumb and index finger you'll know how to tell which are the viable Amaryllis seed because there will be a pronounced "bump" surrounded by the middle of the otherwise flat seed. Any seed that you can't feel the embryo surrounded by failed and are a short time ago chaff and can be tossed out because nothing will sprout from them.
The seed that have the embryo should be planted soon after you've collected them.
http://www.amaryllisbulbs.org/2007/12/vi...
You can use a common purpose houseplant potting soil and amend it with perlite so that your soil is fluffy and airy.
Here's a picture of a small Amaryllis bulb grown from seed which is solely a few months old. It'll eventually turn huge:
http://www.amaryllisbulbs.org/
It take Amaryllis bulbs anywhere from two to three years to reach the stage where on earth they will be able to flower.
I have an idea that you'll enjoy reading other accounts of planting Amaryllis seed from this forum:
"I use 4 inch plastic pots. I fill them next to wet Pro-Mix BX (potting mix) to roughly 1/2 from the top. I then permeate the remaining space with builders sand. I after take a lable expiration and make slits within the sand into which I place the seeds, departing just a piece sticking up. I consequently wrap the pot in a one gallon clear plastic backpack and put them under lights (cool whites).
I hold started thousands this way. When the leaves hit the top of the pod I open it for a afternoon, then remove it. When the unknown bulbs reach roughly speaking pea size I repot the plants into individual 4 inch plastic pots, potting up to 6 or 8 inch pots when required.
I only sea with 1/4 strength fluid fertilizer.
The builder's sand is only the top partially inch of so, all the roots are below it contained by Pro Mix BX. I have done hundreds that track. I start them under lights and move them to my greenhouse when I repot them. It have worked very in good health for me. I use a lable end to brand name the slit for the seed, slip them surrounded by, press the sand down, which is wet from the soil below.
The purpose of the sand it to prevent damp off. I also own used powered cinnamon sprinkled on top to stop mold from growing on the wet sand. Once the seed are sprouted it is generally no problem."
Another method: "drop the seed in a cup of water and keep hold of it in indirect sun (or vey stippled sunlight). this is called the california method and the seed (if they haven't been fried :-) ) should sprout right in attendance in the chalice. wait til you own a quarter inch of root and then plant them contained by soil." With this method some seeds rob weeks to over a month to sprout.
http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load...
Good Luck! Merry Christmas! Hope this is helpful.
Amaryllis are a verry easy flower to grow. Simply budge to your local nursery or the garden section of home depot and by a purse of amaryllis bulbs go home and stick them within some dirt, water frequently and scrutinize them grow.
Amaryllis grow from bulbs.