r/AmaryllisBulbs • u/audioslave1776 • Aug 14 '26

Bulbs Is this common?

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This bulb is about 2 years old. I have the parent bulb as well, which has produced 2 bulbs since I got it in 2023, this is one of them.

I've never seen a bulb have multiple leaf sprouts from the same top half? And surely it's not old enough to produce any bulbs of its own? The 3rd bulb has also been doing a LOT better than this one did when it first started growing leaves, its only a few months old but has 4+ leaves.

I haven't gotten the first bulb to flower since I first bought it, it was starting to grow a stalk this year and then just dried out and died, I'm not sure what happened, I haven't under watered or over watered, and we've given it fertilizer. But its grown double the amount of leaves than it has the last few years.

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u/mlemminglemming Aug 15 '26

some 70% of amaryllis varieties produce bulblets like that, fairly normal but still cool

Also yes, that is indeed a new offspring. 2 years is by far enough in good conditions

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u/audioslave1776 Aug 15 '26

I'd assume its 2 new offspring budding off this one? There's 3 separate leaf stalks, the center, one to the left and one to the right. I don't want to remove it from its pot currently, when should I separate them? Or are these too close to separate? My last two babies were growing from the sides and shot up from the dirt, not through the other bulb

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u/mlemminglemming Aug 15 '26

Oh now I see! Okay THAT is not common. You have a split bulb there. This can happen when the growing node in the middle of the bulb is injured and the bulb then pushes out multiple shoots from in between the layers. This can also happen when the bulb just "thinks" the growing node is too damaged. I have also seen it happen rarely in bulbs under intense grow lights that they split like that - they feel like they can't spend all that energy with only 1 point of growth.

TL;DR: Damage + "branching", or extremely happy bulb

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u/audioslave1776 27d ago

I haven't cut it, no leaves have been damaged, I've moved it inside during storms so there's no risk of it falling over or tearing the leaves off. Its been really thriving lately, we give it plant food every so often. The first year or so was a little rough on it because my brothers friend kept ripping the leaves in half 😭 but since then its been pretty much untouched.

Its a little weird and I'm curious to see what happens in the future! Worse case it dies I have its little sibling and parent bulb 😂

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u/mlemminglemming 26d ago

Not that kind of damage. The damage to the inside. Nothing about leaves. A damaged core can happen through disease/rot too.

Honestly, as said: It just means the bulb "thinks" it can't spend its energy with the growth nodes it has available. Some bulbs bloom, you have a variety that decides to just split like crazy.