Big and Blousy

[flounder]

Mine are flowering now inside the house, once they are over they go somewhere light but unheated will be fed and watered while the leaves grow, then as they go dormant we allow them to be quite cold certainly down to zero on occasions and keep them on the dry side, when signs of life start to re emerge they come back into the house. I can't claim any expertise with these but they seem to need dry cold rest period and feeding while in leaf then as Chad said earlier in the thread they are embarrassingly easy!

This is near as dammit what mine go through. Must say though, seeing a clump of 3ft leaves indoors is probably worth the absence of flowers!

[Phemie]

H. papilio is very late this year due to the cold spring weather and total neglect in an unheated greenhouse.

[LONGK]

H. papilio is very late this year due to the cold spring weather and total neglect in an unheated greenhouse.

I am very jealous! One of my favourites.

[flounder]

There's me talking about the impressive clump of leaves, guess what.....it hasn't happened this year :roll:
They all seem to be 'normal' as in not one over a foot long :?:

[charlie]

Got a new one this year couldn't resist taking its picture!

[Phemie]

Absolutely fantastic!

[JohnJearrard]

...and I can throw a new one into the mix:

[charlie]

I like the white, have to stop Liz spotting it or we will have yet another one to overwinter!

[Chad]

You are all months ahead of me. Mine are only full of [out of focus] promise.



Chad.

[charlie]

The two other bulbs from 2 and 3 years ago are still not showing, its only the new one that has done it so far