Amaryllis bulb?

Hi, i bought an amaryllis bulb on thursday and it was amaryllis white chrismas or chrismas gift, anyways the bulb had a blooming stalk that was 12 inches, so i was curious and decided to look in the soil and unpot it and i saw that there were tons of scales that were starting to dissintegrate and the bulb was feeding on its energy and din`t get watered from october to early january, and the bulb had fungus or something like that on the roots, why it even says top quality bulb.

Amaryllis bulb?
If you cut the roots off, the bloom stalk will die. Just put it back in the pot, and leave it alone until it finishes blooming, then cut off the bloom stalk and let the leaves grow. When they have grown all summer, and you have watered and fertilized it and it is healthy, set the pot on it's side in September or October, so it doesn't get watered any more, and let it rest and die off. Then set it upright again in about 8 weeks and start watering it again. It should bloom again for you next winter.





That is probably not fungus on the roots, but remnants of a bulb food that was put in the soil when it was potted.





The scales will form new bulbs if each one is planted separately, but do not mess with them if you want to see your plant live and bloom.





It is not supposed to get watered from October to Dec., or January. It is resting.
Reply:Generally, those bulbs are ALL "feeding on their own energy" between October and December. It doesn't begin to store food until its leaves are up and starting to photosynthesize.





They can produce a flower stalk, and even a flower, just on their stored energy.





If the roots look mushy, just cut them off, and let the bulb produce new ones.