New H. Paps are happy here

11 years ago

I just was out checking the Papilios that I have growing out front and found a bloom coming up between the outside set of leaves. All the Paps are doing amazing since they were repotted shortly after I received them as gifts. Seems odd to me that they are blooming at the end of a Houston-area summer, but it has been a nice summer with temps consistently in the low to mid 90s. VERY ODD FOR US!

Fingers crossed for a nice taller scape as many of the blooms I got this spring on these Paps were extremely short...0.5 to 2 inches! Another odd thing that we discussed earlier this year.

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Comments (8)

TigerFox
11 years ago
Congratulations to you, hoping to see photos of flowering!
Cheers,
T
joshy46013
11 years ago
Kristi,

In nature H. papilio is actually a winter growing species, it must truly love your care so much they think they're home :)
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npublici
11 years ago
Hippeastrum will sometimes bloom when dug up and replanted. Sometimes Papilio will not bloom for two years after transplanting.
holantina
11 years ago
Wow.... enjoy ;-) good for you1!1
tommyr_gw Zone 6
11 years ago
YAY! I have ONE Pap and it's been outside all summer. Doing well so far!
kaboehm (zone 9a, TX USA)
Original Author
11 years ago
Took one of the medium size bulbs and mounted it "a la Pat"!
K
joshy46013
11 years ago
Kristi,

I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE IT BLOOM :)

I haven't mounted H. papilio yet, I wanna tho! I've started growing Tillandsia so maybe I have mount them together?
seaj
11 years ago
The one Papilio I got in January put out 3 lanky leaves as soon as I potted it up semi-hydro style. It has been outside all summer, and I've pretty much ignored it until last week when I noticed that 4 more leaves were peaking out. The bulb has also bulked up a bit and a little digging revealed an offset. Now if it would just bloom already...