My South African bulbs are now in bloom. Dynamite, a beautiful red Hadeco Sonata from Blooming Bulbs

Hot Lips, a Hadeco Sonatini from Blooming Bulbs

First Love, a Hadeco double Symphony from Amaryllis Bulb Company

Very beautiful blooms.I'm glad to see some new ones.Nothing here yet.

Lovely Bells from Easy to Grow Bulbs. Pretty small red flowers on a scape that always has 5 buds instead of 4. Bloom becomes more ruffled as it ages.

Susan is blooming. She shot up so fast. Stunned me .I shall get a better photo later and update this.

Nice to see the new bulbs start to come into bloom. Susan is an old favorite.

Thanks, Barbara. I just started with a real interest in these bulbs.

ok one of the businesses i sell to had to close shop and here is some of what i got back in bloom

double dragon you see 2 open with 2 more to open on stem
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these are olaf smaller blooms but 5 per stalk and shorter stalk see last has 2 stalk and 3 bloom pushing from middle thats 15 blooms on one bulb!


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these are baby star 3 stages has 4 blooms and 3 stalks tall and seeds?


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next is lima kinda wind blown road home in back of pick up truck


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now is lapaz


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la forest mortain 30 in bloom stalk!!!


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well this is kinda dud or miss marked i might made mistake marked apple blossom and that it is not!



look at what i have left!!!



i love the bulbs but counted on selling all these for 7.00-9.00 per the store close due to family emergency hope the are alright!!!

i will post more as i can
mike

My Amaryllis Minerva has started to bloom, so I made her a centerpiece together with some golden pothos
Click on photo to enlarge.

Your Minerva should be in full bloom by now. Clever way of staking the scape.

Happy Monday to all!

My Amaryllis is finally actively in bloom! But then again, it seems it is not a Minerva. I just went with the name it came in the box, but now that it is in bloom, it does not show any white throat...can someone help me ID this lovely Amaryllis?

Tarev

Im not an expert but it looks a little on the oranger side then pink or red so i say


Ludwigs-Golith if petals are a bit rounder and full open curl back a bit
Bouquet if the petals are bit more pointy and don't curl back

i had those but sold all before bloom to have true pics
if it is a bit more red then i see or when opens up could be olaf but there stems are mostly short
post when full open and is there any more spikes coming up? where did you get the bulb?


mike

I bought the bulb on 19Nov2011 from a local Orchard Supply Hardware store. The box it came in is distributed by Van Zyverden, Inc. and it says product of Israel. Looking at the flower, it seems red orange on the outside but deeper reddish on the inside. I do not see any other spikes coming up. Just 3 more buds on the same stalk getting ready to bloom.

Here is a close-up of the first bloom:

that is a wholesale bulb and plant company and Israel is a interesting place for the bulbs to be coming from most "forcing" bulbs for Christmas flowering are southern hemisphere most Africa and brasil but who knows now days. There is a big import of holland flowers to they are usually more specialty bulbs and take longer to grow and open. the best thing is to give it several more days to fully open and reveal its true color and shape. but it is a nice one.

mike

Reds are the toughest ones to ID, and they are the hardest to photograph. You need to post a photo when the flower is fully mature. One thing to check is the color of the style and filaments of the reproductive parts. Some cultivars have white, some have pink or red styles and filaments. Also look deep in the throat. I don't know the exact term, but what does it look like. White outline, red outline, or no outline around the base of the reproductive parts, this is also used in IDing the cultivar. Recently, Israel has become a major grower of Amaryllis bulbs. It is always frustrating when you receive a mislabeled bulb. In the past it was the most common complaint of customers. I wish that mail order companies would wise up and do their part to stop this practice.

Here are some more close-ups..you are right Barbara, hard to get the true red tint on camera..trying it using auto setting or foliage setting..but here goes...

here are what im seeing today

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if you see the plant where it has flowered 2 stems already and a 3 stem is growing much taller that is difference from having them in the sun to keep short and letting the 3 stalk grow in the house if you look real close in the third tip it has some color because i had in sun for a few days when it just started sprouting just fyi

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mike

I finally have a couple in bloom.I did not take good care of my hippis this past summer and so now I will have to wait for spring before seeing many blooms.I will be crossing these for some good seed to share here.Top photo is Lima -bottom is a Papilio x Night Star cross

Magnum a huge blood red bloom from Royal Colors