HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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AoA Friends,
I have a dozen Spreklia bulbs and a couple of Eucharis plants.
In last ten years I got only one flower from Spreklia and none from Eucharis. I have done everything that I could think of, as planting them in full sun, shade, in pots, in ground, with holding water in winter and so on but to no avail.
Attention Tofiq Pasha HELP ME IF YOU CAN.
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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Brig sb. some bulbs need to be pot bound in order to bloom and this is true in the sense of Eucharis, the like to be crowded in order to bloom and shocks such as foliage removal and holding water in winter months can induce them to bloom, also feed the bulbs with high potash and phosphate based fertilizers.
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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Just put two spreklias from pride seed in the pot few days ago :( well let's see if they bloom fir me. Could it be that your initial bulb was a non-flowering mutant :D ?????
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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I bought this sprekelia from pride seeds and i intentionally chose the one with flower bud already poking. I know the bud was already set from previous year so it did bloom here. Now let us see if this blooms next year too. I think the bulb should do dormant in winter and then it should set buds. But this is also my first year experience with this bulb.

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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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Bohat aalaaa.....
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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aykhan wrote:Just put two spreklias from pride seed in the pot few days ago :( well let's see if they bloom fir me. Could it be that your initial bulb was a non-flowering mutant :D ?????
It may be so. Now there are two others to compare notes :D
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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I planted mine last month, its growing new leaves maybe it wil bloom in sprng.
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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Haris please also post pictures of ur lilums when they are in bloom :)
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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Tahir Khan wrote:Haris please also post pictures of ur lilums when they are in bloom :)
Insh Allah I will.
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Re: HELP, Spreklia and Amazon Lily

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I am growing both plants, Spreklia and Amazon Lily since 2004 and both bloom for me every year. My Spreklias are in the ground, under full sun and Amazon Lilies are in the pots under full shade without any kind of plant foods or fertilizer with normal watering. This plant dislike heat in summers even hot air.
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