How to care for a Hippeastrum

Hippeastrum (originates from central and south America) is also known as Amaryllis (from south Africa).

A Hippeastrum allows you years of pleasure. Our hippeasturm is 16 years old (2018) and get 90 flowers from the original bulb and its bulbils.

A hippeastrum likes lots of light and warmth.

Pot the Hippastrum in a terracottapot with a hole in the bottom. Use potting soil. The bulb must be for 1/3th above the earth. For the level of the potting soil use the point where the collar continues in the lower part of the pot.

Put the pot on a wide saucer.

Give the Hippeastrum on the top of the earth water once the dish is dry.

Put the Hippeastum on a sunny and warm place and leave it there the whole year round.

Put, a couple of times per year, a liquid fertilizer in the water. Also in January, the month before the Hippeastum start to bloom.

Let the leaves and flower stems that have wilted on the plant on the plant until they are fully dried out. Then they can then easily be removed.

The juice of a Hippeasturm is toxic.

Over time, a few years, the earth in the pot will reach the edge of the pot. Then it becomes difficult to water the plant. It is time to put the Hippeastum into a larger pot. Again, for the level of the potting soil use the point where the collar continues in the lower part of the pot.

If you do not want the Hippeastrum to become too large by the multiplication, there arise new tubers next to the mainbulb, remove the new offset bulbils (bulblets). That new tubers arise is seen because of a sheet that, in addition to the mainbulb comes from the earth. The best way is to wait half a year so that the bulbil is a bit bigger. You can keep these bulbils your selve or you can give them away as a gift. It can take three or more years before the new bulbs flower.

A lot of pleasure from your Hippeastrum.