I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave

On 10/4/07 11:37, in article
ws.net, "Oxymel of Squill"
wrote:

I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave


I don't see why they shouldn't flower but whether they flower true is
another matter. You might have some interesting hybrids in there! They're
indoor plants in this country though you could put them outside in pots in
the summer. I think rain on the petals would probably spoil them, though.
They're becoming increasingly popular with florists for sale as cut flowers.
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:37:23 +0100, "Oxymel of Squill"
wrote:

I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?

I grew some from seed many years ago expecting them to be variable but
they all came up and the ones I kept developed into flowering plants
in three or four years. They were all exactly like the original. I
still have some of them and the original.

Steve

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I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave

I cross pollinated a red with a white one a number of years ago using a
small fluffy artist's paint brush to transfer pollen from one to the other.
Only the flowers on the red one set and produced seed. Ended up with lots of
small plants, most of which I gave away. They started flowering last year.
Only red flowers reported so far. Amaryllis like to be outside in the
Summer, but I bring mine indoors over Winter and let them dry out. Not sure
that is the right thing to do but I think a frost would kill them. They seem
to flower whenever they like and not in line with those in garden centres so
I'm probably confusing them what season it is.

Norman Digger.

I have 4 amaryllis flowering and I will give it a go, can you just give some
hints on how to collect the sees? Should I let the pods to dry? Should I
open it and put the seed in the soil?

Thanks a million.

PA


"Oxymel of Squill" wrote in message
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I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave

I have 4 amaryllis flowering and I will give it a go, can you just give
some
hints on how to collect the sees? Should I let the pods to dry? Should I
open it and put the seed in the soil?

Thanks a million.

PA

bit of an amateurish reply, I'm sure others in this group know better, but
as I recall the seeds were just there when the plant got bored with
flowering, little seeds in the middle of a flat black membrane as I recall,
lots of them. Just prod the seed head and there they are
Good luck

Norman Digger writes
I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave

I cross pollinated a red with a white one a number of years ago using a
small fluffy artist's paint brush to transfer pollen from one to the other.
Only the flowers on the red one set and produced seed. Ended up with lots of
small plants, most of which I gave away. They started flowering last year.
Only red flowers reported so far. Amaryllis like to be outside in the
Summer,

Very susceptible to slug damage, though. I keep mine in the greenhouse
for that reason.

but I bring mine indoors over Winter and let them dry out. Not sure
that is the right thing to do but I think a frost would kill them. They seem
to flower whenever they like and not in line with those in garden centres so
I'm probably confusing them what season it is.

I presume that their usual dormant season is not winter, but during the
summer drought. Since we can't match that (we can't get it warm enough
in winter) we persuade them to be dormant in the coldest, darkest
period. Mine are just producing buds now.
--
Kay

Steve Wolstenholme writes
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:37:23 +0100, "Oxymel of Squill"
wrote:

I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?

I grew some from seed many years ago expecting them to be variable but
they all came up and the ones I kept developed into flowering plants
in three or four years. They were all exactly like the original. I
still have some of them and the original.

Isn't that what you'd expect if you had only one plant originally? It
would have been self-pollinated.
--
Kay

Oxymel of Squill writes

I have 4 amaryllis flowering and I will give it a go, can you just give
some
hints on how to collect the sees? Should I let the pods to dry? Should I
open it and put the seed in the soil?

Thanks a million.

PA

bit of an amateurish reply, I'm sure others in this group know better, but
as I recall the seeds were just there when the plant got bored with
flowering, little seeds in the middle of a flat black membrane as I recall,
lots of them. Just prod the seed head and there they are
Good luck

You get a conker-sized seed head. When this ripens of its own accord, it
dries and splits open into three parts, and inside is filled with seeds,
each attached to a black papery membrane. At this stage you collect the
seeds and sow them.


--
Kay

Oxymel of Squill wrote:
I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years
ago and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the
greenhouse. Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I
plant them in the garden or will they need to be indoors?
ta
Dave

Amaryllis or Hippaestrum? Many a Hippaestrum has been misnamed...

Les


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In message , K
writes
Steve Wolstenholme writes
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:37:23 +0100, "Oxymel of Squill"
wrote:

I saved the seeds from the big vulgar trumpet plant a couple of years ago
and now have a pile of healthy looking plants in pots in the greenhouse.
Can anyone tell me are they likely to flower, and can I plant them in the
garden or will they need to be indoors?

I grew some from seed many years ago expecting them to be variable but
they all came up and the ones I kept developed into flowering plants
in three or four years. They were all exactly like the original. I
still have some of them and the original.

Isn't that what you'd expect if you had only one plant originally? It
would have been self-pollinated.

Not necessarily. In an inbred line one expects seedlings to resemble
their parents. One does not expect the same of the seedlings of a F1
hybrid. I am not qualified to comment on which case Amaryllis is more
likely to resemble.
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Stewart Robert Hinsley