Haemanthus 2010

[Bev Olson]

Very wierd

[jshields]

Fermi, you just have to water and feed it now.  I use water-soluble fertilizer with N-P-K ratios of 20-10-20 at 100 ppm nitrogen.  That is 100 mg nitrogen per liter of water, or about 0.5 grams (ca 1/10 teaspoonful) of the dry, solid fertilizer per liter.  I grow mine in full sun on our deck in summer, then leave them dry in the cool greenhouse with all the other Haemanthus in winter.  It's easy.

Jim

[fermi de Sousa]

Thanks, Jim,
I'll find a space for it during the winter where it won't get soggy!
cheers
fermi

[Juan Fornes]

- Michael J Campbell: great for your Haemanthus albiflorus! Looks so healthy!
- Haemanthus: impressive your coccineus. Also, didnīt expect Haemanthus berries to be so big! Unfortunately I havenīt been able to see any plant from this genus closely. The leaves of your wegskraal reminds me of a big Phalaenopsis. And what about your H. humilis... Wow!  Congratulations for your plants!
- Fermiges: good luck with your H. humilis hirsutus!
- Michael J Shield: thank you for your link to amaryllidaceae! Interesting to notice Pancratium is closer to Sternbergia than to Vagaria... Thatīs what makes this forum so interesting: everyday I learn so many new things!

[jshields]

I'm curious about Haemanthus pubescens arenicola.  I got a bulb of that several years ago from Guy Wrinkle in Los Angeles.  It has much wider leaves than pubescens pubescens.  It bloomed for the first time this year, and looked much like coccineus.  I pollinated it with coccineus pollen, and it set a bunch of seeds (which I discarded - got plenty of coccineus).  Now, Bernie has me wondering if I might not have whatever Bernie has from Lüderitz, Namibia.  Does anyone else have Haemanthus pubescens arenicola?  What do other plants of it look like?  Mine split, so I will have an offset for trading next summer.

Jim

[BULBISSIME]

not the best one of the genus, Haemanthus deformis is flowering now.

[PeterT]

It looks wonderfull to me Fred, mine are still tiny and only 18 months old