In order not to strain your wallet with the purchase of expensive amaryllis, you as a hobby gardener have the option of growing your own. These brief instructions show you how to grow your own knight star from seeds or onions.

Amaryllis can be grown from seeds or bulbs

Growing amaryllis from seed - How to do it professionally

Once a knight star has unfurled its flowers, take a cotton swab and transfer the yellow pollen to the creamy-white pistil. In the course of the following 2 months, a fruit with the precious seed develops. The dark seeds can be easily removed from the clearly open fruits. This is how the sowing proceeds in a controlled way:

  • Fill the coconut fiber substrate into a seed tray, a balcony box or pots
  • Plant the seeds next to each other, no more than 1 cm deep, without touching each other
  • Pour carefully with a fine spray until the water runs out of the bottom opening
  • Pull cling film over the jar

The seeds will germinate within 2 to 4 weeks in a partially shaded, warm window seat and the hood can be removed. The seedlings are only pricked out when they have 5 to 6 leaves. Water and fertilize your pupils continuously until the first flowering, without taking the rest break that is obligatory for an adult knight star.

How to pull a knight star out of a brood onion

If the care program conforms to the subtropical vegetation cycle, the amaryllis invests its excess energy in the growth of bulbs. These thrive prominently in the base of the bulb and have all the wonderful attributes of the mother plant. This is how easy it is to turn the daughter onion into a breathtaking star star:

  • Cut off the offshoot with a minimum diameter of 3 cm
  • Pot in a lean substrate such as cactus or transplanting soil over expanded clay drainage
  • Water moderately from below in a semi-shady, warm location
  • Start supplying nutrients while the leaves are sprouting

Please make sure that the small onion is only half covered with soil. You can look forward to a colorful premiere of flowers within 1 to 2 years.

tips

In the context of generative propagation by sowing seeds, the attributes of the mother plant are rarely preserved. Resourceful hobby gardeners always keep a few onions of their favorite variety in the cool, dark cellar - as a safety reserve, so to speak.

Category:

Vegetable garden