Please ID this Plant. Thank You.

Hi All,
Today, I've found a root bound plant at a corner of my compound and don't know what this plant is. Some says, it flowers with a long long stalk and is beautiful but I have never seen it flowers in my compound. So, please ID this plant for me and please suggest the nature and requirements of this plant.

This pot was left in a shady site and never flowers and was ignorant. I'm planning to move it to bigger pot or plant in the ground but I don't have any idea where to put (shade or sun and How much). So, please give me some idea about this plant.

Thanks,
HK77

 

Looks like a Hippeastrum cv.

HTH
Chris

 

Looks like Amaryllis (Hippeastrum)

How to Grow Amaryllis

 

Thank You guys,

Because of you all, I know now my plant is Amaryllis. But after visiting the website provided by smivies and after googling for that plant, I still don't have a clear idea on what to do with my plant. As you can see in the picture, the plant is root-bound and there are at least 3-4 bulbs in the same pot. I'm living in a tropical country and so have 3 weather(hot, rainy & cold-winter). Now, it's in winter and temperature is around 19-22C at night and 28-33C in the afternoon. (40-45C at direct sun light). Summer is hotter of course.

I don't know how many years that plant has been sitting in my compound and whenever I see it, it's ever green with these tall leaves and nothing changed. No Flowers, No dormancy. So, what should I do with this plants right now? Do I have to trim and cut away these pot-bound roots and remove these 3-4 bulbs separately and repot them? What I can do to make them bloom in my weather?

Thanks again,
HK77

 

Yep, pretty sure you guys are right. I've been selling these for weeks at work. They are popular christmas presents here. Normally we only do one plant to a pot. The bulbs can get pretty big.

 

Well, I live in 2-season equatoreal tropics, and mine bloom for me almost year-round. They don't generally go dormant in the tropics, but if they do it will be in the coolest of the seasons, and that's the time to transplant them. Unlike temperate, 4-distinct-seasons zones, dormancy in the tropics just means they don't flower. Equally, very rootbound bulbs won't bloom.

The first thing is to separate them into pots, one bulb per pot, or ideally into the ground, about 30cm apart. Try to separate them gently and not lose too much root-mass in the process, this will help them to not go into shock when you transplant them. Even so, you will probably see some wilting of the leaves.

Water them fairly well, say once every two or three days in your heat. Let them establish themselves. Next summer they should probably feel comfortable enough to bloom. If you wish to encourage flowering, feed them a balanced fertilizer for bulbs (10-10-10) once a month until they start blooming, and mix bonemeal into the soils around where you will be planting.

 

Thanks Lorax,

Very nice to know that you're also from tropical country. I'll try as you've said but please mention whether I should put it in direct sunlight or shade? How many hours of direct light it requires? If it won't go dormant in tropical countries, do you mean the flowers will just appear without those green leaves fall and I need to do nothing special as in 4 season countries?

Waiting for your help again,
HK77

 

Well, mine grow in both part shade and in full sun, and it doesn't seem to matter all that much. Mine get a steady 12.5 hours of sunlight year round, but I am at the equator, and your conditions may vary a bit but it shouldn't make much difference. In the spring and fall, you'll get flowers well before you get leaves, and nothing special needs to be done.

 

The induced dormancy and storage is to get them to bloom at Christmas. They don't require it.

 

Thanks you All. You are all really helpful. Now, I'll separate each bulbs into a pot with upper 1/3 exposed and put them in a place where they can get about 4 hours direct sunlight. Water every 3 days and fertilizer once a month with 14-14-14 slow release fertilizer. Then! I'll wait and see them bloom in coming summer.

Only one thing I'm quite curious is that "Does this plant naturally wither it's green leaves before it blooms again? Or it just produce a flower stalk among the old green leaves when summer comes?"

Sorry for many stupid questions but I'm really curious with this plant right now and you all are my only source of knowledge about plants.

Thank You.

 

For the ones that have naturalized into my lawn, they lose their leaves and then surprise me by shooting up flowers at about the time I have forgotten that they're there. The ones in my garden beds, on the other hand, seem to keep their leaves.

And no plant question is ever stupid!

 

You could just put the whole thing in a bigger pot, with fresh potting soil and leave it as a clump. The most impressive one I've seen was a clump flowering inside a house in BC. Several stems all blooming at once.