Using individual hydro pots with outer pot and gauge

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by Merlyn

Nice plant, Jim !!! Being unfamiliar with Hippeastrum it looks a whole lot like an Amaryllis to me, is it in the same family or something ?

The correct genus name is Hippeastrum. Amaryllis is a similar genus that's not so widely cultivated, and I believe that it's more tropical. Beyond that I don't know much, and I'm not sure though how Hippeastrum ended up with the common name of Amaryllis.

[Pilot]

Originally Posted by camille1585

The correct genus name is Hippeastrum. Amaryllis is a similar genus that's not so widely cultivated, and I believe that it's more tropical. Beyond that I don't know much, and I'm not sure though how Hippeastrum ended up with the common name of Amaryllis.

Make yourself an average American consumer for a moment....I know, frightening... But which would you buy? Something called Amaryllis....or...hippeastrum? Amaryllis won and was used as a marketing tool to sell these plants. That's how I've understood to to be. Sad, really, because those of us who grow them and hybridize them like to call the hippies for short. Lol







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[Merlyn]

Ryan, yours are STUNNING !!! I was just thinking of getting one to bring as an Xmas gift to the party I'm going to on the 18th. Home Depot has a hard sale going on as you walk in the door, I almost got one last time I was there. New style glass pots in an "Amaryllis kit" with different color stones etc. REAL EYE CATCHING display !!! I'll be going TODAY !!! One for the party and 1 for me, a Hippe for a hippie !!!

BTW, in case you're all wondering, my avatar is a parrot named . . . . MERLYN !!! Don't remember where I found the pix !