I have a dozen bulblets, about the size of peas, that I've detached from the mother bulbs. Tree mail me if interested.

I have this one but someone should jump on this.These are beautiful little species .

Lily, I have a bunch of them too but just wondering, does yours bloom for you and if it does, how do you get it to bloom???????? I've had mine for at least 8 or 9 years and it has only bloomed once. It's in a west window, gets bright light but little direct sun, I give it fertilizer in it's growing period, I never let it dry out completely and it just sits there growing lots and lots of leaves and bulblets but no flowers. What am I doing wrong?

Hi Brian,

I haven't seen mine bloom. I got them almost three years ago as tiny seedlings from a fellow amaryllis enthusiast in PA. I don't give them special care. Just the occasional fertilizing. And I am hoping to see them bloom this season. They are dormant right now.

It sounds like you are giving them fert with high nitrogen content.


Perhaps JT and others who grow this species will share their experience.

Hi, Lily,
I'd love to havsome of your bulblets. I am trying to build my collection. I could send you some bulblets of a deep pink crinum, if you'd like. Thanks! Stephanie

I don't give mine anything extra.I keep them in pots and give them a late fall rest,then a re-pot in fresh potting soil.Mine seem to bloom every other year with a wild multiplying spree in the off years.

Stephanie, the bulblets are spoken for but I unpotted my bulbs and found a few for you. I will tree mail you.

Thanks JT for chiming in.

I had read that this type does not like to go dormant and keeps it's leaves year round. It does have a rest in the fall (for me) where it doesn't put up any new leaves for about 2 months ( doesn't loose the old ones though) then goes into a growth spurt. I had changed my fertilizer a couple years ago because I thought of that too but it hasn't helped. The only time it bloomed was the winter it spent in my livingroom where it only got about 2 hours of sun in the late afternoon. Maybe I should put it back there? When I had bought this it was dormant and had been dried off for sale with the typical fall Amaryllis sales. It sat there growing roots (which is the only reason I kept it) for almost 2 years before it put out it's first leaf.

One of my striatum is now blooming. The flower is small about 3.5 inches across.

Now I see I was way off and had this confused with H. reticulatum VAR. striatum. I don't have that one at all. This is what I had it confused with.

It has striatum in its name too. Your retic is very pretty. I have been looking for that one and Mrs. Garfield on ebay. There were a few listed but were from Thailand. Thanks for sharing your plant pics.