Thanks for the link to your article Margaret. I've been doing that with most of my other varieties and have generally had blooms on them yearly. This particular one is quite different though. They do not like to dry out or be disturbed. When I bought it it was like every other hippeastrum at the garden centre, dry and leafless. It took a whole year sitting in the pot before I got one single leaf from it. It sat there, the bulb was firm and I could see through the holes in the pot it was rooting but not any top growth for at least a year. Since then it has grown many new bulbs, it fills the 10 inch pot, and lots of leaves but has only flowered once. I keep it because the leaves themselves are attractive and it's a challenge! I'm going to get it to bloom again if it's the last thing I do!
