They all look very nice and healthy.

Thanks, Barbara. I hope after dormancy all of them except the peacock baby will bloom again this winter or next spring.

Hi, Guess it's about the time making A.s ready for dormancy... Need opinions for considering this Peacock baby be treated as other adult bulbs for dormancy or not. Below are photos taken on 8-2-2015 and today (9-17-2016):

@fiat how big is the bulb and how old?

Thanks, Christie. Don't know how big the ~2 yr old baby bulb is (will know if dig out)... Comparing to the mother, the baby's leaves are only about half wide and half long as mom's. Maybe just leave it alone and repot in next spring?

If it were me, I would leave it for one more year, and then let it go dormant after that.
Unless you see that the leaves are trying to go yellow and dormant on their own.
I have some Minerva seeds that planted - they have now just reached year 3, and sure enough, the leaves have gone yellow and I can see the bulbs are trying to go dormant.

I only have 3 bulbs left, this summer 10 plants got a disease, red spots on the leaves that got bigger and bigger, the leaves would then die, went from one plant to another so I thought the best thing to do was dump them and buy a few new ones this fall. Still thinking that maybe I should have dumped the others also.

Ok, let it go dormant next year. Tks Christie.

Margaret, so sad to hear your diminished bulbs Yet, getting new bulbs is always exciting!

Margaret, sorry to hear that you lost most of your bulbs. What is more interesting is that 3 did not get sick. Maybe those cultivars are more resistant to what ever is doing this. At least half of mine, which are outside year round, do the same thing in mid to late summer, The leaves get big red patches that spread down to the ground. I pull off all the rotten leaves and the bulbs put out a second flush of growth in the fall that seems to be OK. I'm wondering if this is an environmental issue fostering disease on the leaves rather than a disease of the actual bulb. I don't discard the bulb until it is obviously mushy. I also don't trade bulbs, so I am not unintentionally passing on any residual disease to someone else. Margaret, now you have room for new bulbs.

Barbara, the leaves would die right down to the neck of the bulb, then a new leaf would start to grow nicely, then get the red patches and again they would die right down to the bulb, after watching this happen to one plant after another for most of the spring and into summer I decided it was best to get rid of them. The 3 surviving are Lemona, Exotic Star, and the new one from last year Purple Rain.

Hello,

What is the growing zone for

Amaryllis "Marquis" and

Amaryllis "Stargazer"

I have a bunch of beautiful red Amaryllis that I have in the ground and some in a pot that come back each year. I am hoping that the ones mentioned above will be able to be planted outside.

Thanks
Bill

@bwbillh Hi Bill. As long as the soil does not freeze, they will be fine. They can stand a frost (although the leaves might turn brown,) but not a freeze. If it is just a light freeze, you could probably get away with putting a blanket over them at night.

here is a picture of the red ones I have that come back every year - is there a way to ID them?

Bill, in general red ones that have you've had for a while are IDed as Red Lion unless photos prove otherwise. Until the last ten years, Red Lion was almost universally sold as the "red bulb" around Xmas. It was also the most widely sold red garden type amaryllis because it was reasonably hardy when planted outside in borderline frost areas. Today, Red Lion is still the predominate Box Store Xmas Red, but occasionally you do find other newer reds sold at Xmas.