Why does my amaryllis not change?

Because it is sitting in water. It needs a 6” clay pot, decent soil, the bulb’s top one -third uncovered, watering when soil is dry and plant food (like Miracle Gro) several times a year.

I have two of these Barbados lilies blooming today. The photo was of a spectacular display in Jan.

How to pot your bulb.

And direct sunlight like in Barbados, Hawaii or Brazil.

After mine blossomed, I put it out in the garden (dug a big hole and filled it with potting mix) and let it finish out the growing season there. I should have some good blooms next year.

^^ Why bother with all that extra work? The bulbs are happy in their too-small clay pots and will bloom year after year. Do you live in zone 8–10? Apparently they can be permanently planted in the ground there.

Mine was a rescue, @gailcalled, so I just mimicked the conditions I found it in, thinking that would do it. Or that I would learn more. If I can’t provided indoor direct sun, should I just gift it?

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But mine is perfect. Huge and symmetrical fan. We broke a leaf moving it, and I was able to splint it with a bamboo skewer until it healed.

What zone are you in, @snowberry?

Link does not work. Do you have any area in the house that gets 6–7 hours of sun?

Thanks for the broken link alert, @gailcalled. I called the durned thing up again on the net, copy and pasted, with the same result.

Link removed, we just have to go on my physical description.

I do not have an area of the house that gets prolonged sun, @gailcalled. River bluff in the back, tree in the front.

Actually I looked up Amaryllis Care on a search engine, and they said to plant it outside for the summer. Mine is sure happy, and I made sure it got lots of water. I have 4 bulbs, and they are bigger, which means healthy plants. I’m in zone 8b.

Amaryllis, like most bulbs, have to go through a resetting cycle.
The lovely big leaves should at some point wither down, even though you’ve been watering properly etc. and that means the bulb is going into its dormant phase.
Then stop watering it and store it in a dark place for a couple months, and monitor occasionally.
At some point it should start to pop back out again. Put it back into a sunny place and start wartering again and if you’re lucky you’ll have a bloom stalk coming up too.

In my experience with many amaryllis over the years I get about 50% that will bloom again at all. My sunlight is not ideal (only two hours direct per day) but some strong bulbs come back again and again.

I think I have about 4 months before my plant is a year old @dabbler, no sign of change. Good info!