# Late Update on my Amaryllis and the Contest **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 17, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-update-on-my-amaryllis-and-the-contest/285263 "2005-01-17T23:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-update-on-my-amaryllis-and-the-contest/285263/1 "2005-01-17T23:25:14Z")
So, I was doing a vanity search :o and I realised I had abandoned [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=291274&highlight=amaryllis) old thread - I must have missed it during the holidays. So, rather than bump it, I’ll start this one. I was asked by **twickster** how I did in the contest - second place. In which I won: nothing. 😃 My husband’s grandmother won by quite a bit - her plant was 3 feet tall, with another new stalk growing along beside it. Sheesh. The prize was a beautiful little “prayer plant”. Grandma insists she did nothing more than set it in the kitchen window and watered it only when dry, while her kids grumbled about her using special miracle plant potions, or eye of newt. 😉 The others in the contest had overwatered their plants, or didn’t give it enough light, or heat. Though their amaryllis didn’t die, they were very small. Despite not winning, however, I am still very pleased with my very first amaryllis. [Here](http://img104.exs.cx/img104/1993/faraway8cv.jpg) it is on Christmas Day (that’s hubby measuring for the contest), and [here](http://img104.exs.cx/img104/5373/bloom28vd.jpg) it is the day _after_ Christmas. (yes, that’s the infamous Super Pickle in the background, chilling on the computer monitor). I’ll bet we would have gotten bonus points for a bloom! :mad: 😃 We got six full, huge, beautiful blooms out of this plant, over time. All but one of the blooms have since withered and been plucked off, and I’m about ready to send it into “hibernation” for a while. I’ll be repotting it into a good clay pot this weekend, with better soil. So, yay! Now I have a pretty amaryllis plant for next year, and maybe someday when we move into a house, I’ll plant it outside. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-update-on-my-amaryllis-and-the-contest/285263/2 "2005-01-18T01:55:19Z")
Guess what! Mine started growing a flower stalk out of its side, maybe a week or two ago. No bloom yet, but I expect one any day. So my amaryllis is not defective, only mildly retarded. I think it’s like those people who have teeth growing straight out of where teeth shouldn’t go, but it’s my baby. These things are amazing - I honestly think it grows at least an inch a day sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-update-on-my-amaryllis-and-the-contest/285263/3 "2005-01-18T03:07:15Z")
Congratulations, **Anastaseon**! Remember – don’t send it directly into hibernation: keep the foliage going (with sunlight and regular waterings) till Labor Day so it can feed next year’s blooms ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/late-update-on-my-amaryllis-and-the-contest/285263/4 "2005-01-18T03:23:31Z")
You missed [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5705145) post as well.