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title: "I thought I asked this before and yet I cannot find a post from me.…"
description: "I thought I asked this before and yet I cannot find a post from me. The long leafed items, contained in the upside down tomato cage, are my amaryllis bulbs.…"
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author: "John G Amero"
published: "2024-08-30T14:10:29.382537Z"
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# I thought I asked this before and yet I cannot find a post from me.…

_Opslået af John G Amero den 2024-08-30_

I thought I asked this before and yet I cannot find a post from me.

The long leafed items, contained in the upside down tomato cage, are my amaryllis bulbs.

Last year I left them outside till end of September (at least then maybe longer.). They did not produce any amazing trumpet flowers by the time the Christmas holidays came around. Instead I had Easter Amaryllis.

Which holiday the trumpets blast is not important to me.

What I’d like to know is:

when do people take a perfectly healthy plant, who’s getting sun, and stick it into a dark cool basement while cackling and saying “See you in 8 weeks. If you live through the darkness.” Then with more cackling as you turn out the light.

Oh and ignore the baby tiger. If Paris Hilton can have a purse dog then I can have a backpack tiger. (I’m kidding.)

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## 8 kommentarer

### eatyacarbs kommenterede den 2024-08-30

it’s always a mildly traumatic experience for me when i cut my beautiful oxalis down to nothing and put it in the dark until spring 🥴

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#### John G Amero svarede den 2024-08-30

Oh no. Why?  
Why’d ya do it?  
And do you cackle when the lights go out like I do?

I don’t really. If anything I leave a night light on for them and a bell in case they need anything from me.

But seriously. Should I bring the larger one’s in at least? And leave the three mini bulbs out till before that first cold snap?

I have one out front along the front of the house too so a total of 3 medium to large and 3 small, which came from the other 3. It’ll be their third year!

![Vedhæftet fil 1 af 1](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/6gxEM_j_mJgdysj-2z4vmXECXcvvzQ8T9LpBISEIrd4/Fr-gfrHeTfKnQpAETv7zhw.webp?size=large)

#### eatyacarbs svarede den 2024-08-30

They like to “go to sleep” and she comes back bigger and badder every year. It simulates winter dormancy, I think.

I don’t actually know anything about amaryllis but it looks like you’re doing it right?? They’re lovely

#### Deanna svarede den 2024-08-31

Wow! It looks like a cloud of purple butterflies!

#### eatyacarbs svarede den 2024-08-31

you should see her in a light breeze 🤩

### John G Amero kommenterede den 2024-08-30

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### John G Amero kommenterede den 2024-08-30

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### John G Amero kommenterede den 2025-01-04

My Easter Amaryllis is coming along just fine. 😎

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