No molasses. The sugar allows fungus to grow. A simple soak in 1 qt of warm water and 1 tsp of baking soda or 1 tsp of hydrogen peroxide will do it. No need to buy dangerous, expensive chemicals.
That's good to know! 👍 Thanks for posting. I read about using diluted peroxide or bleach but can I soak my bulb and then re-pot it in sterile soil so I can watch it continue to grow and bloom this season? The article I read pertains to doing this prior to storing. Thanks! 🙂
Thank you for an informative video. Like how you hold up the names and show the packaging, so I can pause and write down. Just bought some bulbs from a lady that has a bit of this. Going to do the bath, already bleached all my clay pots a month ago. Will put in another area so they don't infect my 55 year old ones. Great video. God Bless You Real Good.
My Amaryllia garden is in it's own outdoor raised garden planter, what you are describing here is what I'm seeing in this planter. Although I've been wondering if earwigs would have a part in it too??.
I grow amaryllis indoors, in LECA, so bottom watered, no soil. They bloomed beautifully but I think a bulb was infested and all my amaryllis got it. I've cut the leaves , cleaned the bulb, sprayed with anti-fungal (copper based) but the red blotch is back. I tried yesterday Hydrogen Peroxide (6%) , with water (1 to 4 ratio). I don't think it will recover as I can see some red spots on the roots also :( I live in uk so unfortunately these two brands are unavailable here it seems.
@redmoruga4600 The primary active ingredient in both these products shown is Thiophanate methyl (though Topsin does have an additional fungicide) I buy a much smaller container made by Souther AG called THIOMYL, it's less than 15.00 and it only takes 1 teaspoon (5ml) of powder per gallon of water. Try searching the active ingredient to see what products might be available in the UK, doesn't have to be the same brand names! Hope you find something! A copper based fungicide can also be used on amaryllis, but isn't nearly as effective for red splotch
Hello dear! I was extremely amazed that you actually answer. Oh my! Seriously! I have neem oil, but anywhere I used it just didn’t work for anything yet. (I used on my citrus trees for scale bugs and for soil pests in my pots.)But I’ll keep it in mind maybe give it a try one more time. Can you soak a bulbs in this solution (mix neem oil with soap as you showed somewhere) from red blotch? You use peroxide in some of your videos. I might try that too, not sure if that’ll work well. My bulbs were in a ground for summer and when I dug them out in fall they got sooooo much red blotches. I’m sure this topsin or banrot works well. But they sell them in big bags and very expensive. It’s worthless for 5 bulbs. What if I take them out and spray with fungus-3 spray that’s sold in stores ready mix. Also I’ve herd that copper sulfate really helps. Can I give a bath in copper sulfate?(I mean mix it with right proportions of water) Or it will damage a bulb. Or I can only use copper sulfate it in a soil? Probably too much questions, sorry I just don’t know what to do with my bulbs
Okay to treat them with Fungus 3 spray. Okay to use copper sulfate diluted with water. when a bulb is internally rotten it will die. thanks for your inquiry.
Mine bulbs are in an old mixed flower bed with daylillies and cannot be dug up. I have had them in the bed for about 20 years and the last two years we have red blotch on them all. How do I treat them since I cannot dig them up? I also tried neem oil and it didn’t work.
You might try a hydrogen peroxide solution. Pour it on each bulb - about 1\2 cup of solution per bulb. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Znvy09RpR0.html
I appreciate your info. Mine live in the ground in So Cal and have been there about 20 years now. It's rained a lot this year. I wondered what the red splotches were! Overhead irrigation is inevitable, and that soil is what it is. No way I can dig up the 50 or so bulbs at this point. I'll try to see if I can get that banrot and just do an in earth application. Thanks.
Thank you so much. I kind of did my own thing before seeing this video. I cut off all the roots right down to the basal plate, peeled off the layer with the red blotch, scrubbed the bulb with a toothbrush with Dawn dish soap, rinsed well with water. Then soaked the bulb for 5 minutes in a 2000 ppm bleach solution. Rinse well. It is now on the counter, drying out. I hope I didn't kill the bulb. I'm going to find out soon enough, I guess.
❓ I have a question but first let me say thank you very much for sharing such an informative video on red blotch. I have done so much research reading articles about Red Blotch and although I suspected Red Blotch was my problem based on symptom description, none of the pictures looked like my amaryllis or yours for that matter; however, your amaryllis leaves displaying Red Blotch are an identical match to my problem leaves. Is this true?... I read that soaking bulbs in a diluted bleach or hydrogen peroxide solution would kill the fungus and it should be done before storing. What wasn't said is whether or not you can soak the bulb and then replant it in sterile soil and a clean pot and let it continue to grow or whether or not I should cut the bad spots off the leaves. ❓Would you recommend this❓ My bulb was a gift so I would really love to save this bulb and see it Bloom this season. Will I have to wait another year or can it be saved to bloom now? Thank you again for this informative video and for any help you can provide. Have a great day and God bless! 😇
Cut off all the leaves. Unearth the bulb and soak it in 50% water, 50% hydrogen peroxide solution for 30 minutes. then replant. That is about the best that can be done.
