{"id":8296,"date":"2020-07-17T04:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2020-07-17T04:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T04:48:51","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-199-hippeastrum-mandonii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/plant-a-day-2020-day-199-hippeastrum-mandonii\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 199) Hippeastrum mandonii"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When one of my more robust Hippeastrums bloomed, I didn\u2019t pay much attention to the seed pod. And months later, little Hippeastrum plants started springing up in random pots in the greenhouse. I realized then that maybe these plants are that difficult to grow from seed, so I went online and found some seeds for a rare species, H. mandonii. Two of the seeds germinated and I ended up with two strong seedlings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, however, the plants have gone through strange phases. The main bulbs both died off, but there were several offsets all around them. However, the offsets stayed dinky for a long time. This year, one pot seems ful of dead-looking offsets. I repotted them into new soil and cleaned them up a bit, but they still haven\u2019t leafed out green at all. The second pot, however, is very much alive and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n