Hippeastrum spp.
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- How to Plant an Amaryllis Bulb: Pot Size and Planting Depth
- Amaryllis Care Indoors: Watering, Feeding and Turning the Pot
- Amaryllis After Flowering: Cutting the Stalk and Feeding for Next Year
- Amaryllis Year Round: Growing Season, Dry Rest and Reflowering
- Amaryllis Problems: Red Blotch, Bulb Rot, Mealybugs and No Flowers
- How to Propagate Amaryllis from Offsets, Cuttage and Seed
Pests and diseases (6)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Late Blight
Disease
Dark green water-soaked lesions appear on the leaves and expand quickly into brown dead tissue. White mold forms on the underside and at the lesion edge, and dark brown lesions spread to stems and fruit.
Anthracnose
Disease
Light brown to dark brown round lesions with sharp margins form on leaves and fruit, slightly sunken in the center. In wet weather salmon-pink slimy spore masses ooze out on the lesions.