My amarillas has flowered & now they've died off what do I do with it? Do I cut the stalk back to the bulb? Never been very green fingered!!!
2007-03-11 07:53:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
The first two answers are incorrect, if you go to Kew gardens or the RHS gardens in Wisley and talk to the people in charge of the glass houses they will agree with me.
Leave the flowering stem on until it starts to wither then pull it out so as to make a clean break.
Find a pot that is two sizes larger than the one it is in already in, use a well drained potting compost and put up your bulb, water your bulb with a high Nitrogen feed and once it starts to push up a new flower stem feed it on a tomato feed and repeat over an over. You will find that the bulb will produce more bulbs around the base which can be left on or split off, if you want to grow some bulbs for presents.
Just follow these steps and your first bulb will flower over and over so that you can get more out of your first bulbs.
2007-03-11 08:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take it out of the pot, let it dry off, protect from frost and take leaves of some five weeks later, allowing the goodness from the leaves to re-enter the bulb. Done it for years.
2007-03-11 14:58:10 · answer #2 · answered by MANCHESTER UK 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes thats right! cut back to the bulb and store in a cool dark place till autunm then re-plant.
2007-03-11 14:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by Shadygoingson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure but armarillas are very nice flowers!
2007-03-11 15:04:45 · answer #4 · answered by *~*Purr-fectNYCGrl*~* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋