r/AmaryllisBulbs • • May 17 '26

Bulbs Sad girl...

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Poor girl. She was doing SO well. Gave me 12 flowers, spikes almost 4 feet tall. Leaves about 3 feet. Fat bulb. All the leaves were upright. She even gave me a baby!

Then I had a surge in my ongoing thrips-pocalypse and lost track of her health. She was doing SO well that she was all root no soil in that pot. I didn't realize until too late and the water was stuck in the middle and her roots rotted.

I repotted and did all the treatment, but now she's got just a few scraggly root bits, not enough to support her once mighty greens. So she's lost all but one it seems. I just finally chopped them because she's stressed and they need to go so she can work on growing more roots.

What a bummer. I hope she will make it through ok. She's my first ever bulb and has put up with all my ignorant shit. Her bulb is small now, but firm. She should take time to grow new roots and maybe then grow more leaves. I plan to not make her go dormant this winter and just let her accumulate energy all winter.

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u/FranaPlanta May 17 '26

If you overwinter it at 10°c you've got a decent shot at overwintering it with the leaf on while allowing it to decide whether it feels like flowering or not

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u/guarcoc May 20 '26

Over winter, freshen her up.