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Amaryllis/Hippeastrum

Inducing offsets without cutting

11 years ago

Is there any way to induce a bulb to offset without cutting it up?

Many of mine have set offsets randomly, but I would love to be able to force them to offset at will.

I have noticed that the smaller the pot and the more rootbound the bulb is, the more offsets they have produced. A blossfeldiae that I just dug up from a pitifully small container produced 4 offsets over the course of the last 6 months. Another rootbond pot produced 9 offsets!

Now obviously each variety ranges in their propensity to offset, but perhaps this is a universal odds increaser.

Anyone notice the same with their bulbs?

New blosfeldiae offsets:

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Comments (3)

brownest_thumb
Original Author
11 years ago
9 offsets!
brownest_thumb
Original Author
11 years ago
Roots roots roots!
berkeleysgr8
11 years ago
From an evolutionary biology standpoint, it makes some sense that when plants are stressed (as with being root bound, having a cut bulb, or damage from the horrible narcissus bulb fly) they may be more prone to create offsets... all in a desperate attempt to keep the plant's genes going through new life/plants. Many hippies are naturally epiphytes... if they were growing in nature and in a root bound situation, new offsets would have the potential of breaking from the mother plant and falling to a location where they could establish themselves. Just one opinion... -Tina

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