I posted photos with prices clearly visible in March 2010. Those bulbs are HUGE!! Shame that they weren't packaged for carrying back to the US!
Kristi

Boring vacation photos linked

Here is a link that might be useful: EU vacation including bulbs

Love those pics. I emailed you separately.

But i can't believe it... 3Euros each or 4 for 10 Euros!!! That is practically wholesale prices..

I said to my friend to get me a couple but it looks like 5 i want now... lol

Your pics made me real happy. :)

I wasn't able to open your link Kristi....anyone else?

AuntJemima could open it and has responded...Here's the URL:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/amaryllishippeastrum/msg0320324916622.html
K

My friend got me one of each of those. Somewhat doubtful they will be true to variety, especially the papilio... didn't think they got that big.

But thanks for your help Kristi. :)

I guess there is something different about seeing them in person than just ordering online.

If I had my way, I'd love to alway pick out my own bulbs. Those red-streaked ones scare me!! Enjoy your new bulbs. Keep us posted on how they do!
K

Knowing my friend he'll have gotten me the most red ones as they were most ripe. I regret teaching him that lesson when choosing fruit, he'll probably apply that to the bulbs.

It was a shame i was still asleep or else i'd have made him photograph the rest but they are probably all red lions anyway. Really makes me wonder how they get them that big.

Now i'm just hoping he doesn't take 6 months to mail me them.

Why are there no dutch ebay sellers enterprising enough to sell them online i wonder.

Many of the sellers do offer JUMBO bulbs on line.
K

Well i see 34cm bulbs for sale but i only really see the 40+ on RoyalColors website for consumer purchase at least for Europe or wholesale places. Is there other places?

I was just wondering why all those stall owners in Holland do not ebay them. They could mark them up significantly like komoriya and still there would be demand as those sizes are not widely available. I should totally do it, only problem being they all sprout before i sell them and they end up not being the variety advertised.

They'd need to get phyto certificates for each bulb sold to the US. I've seen jumbo bulbs elsewhere. Let me do a little looking.
K

Ok... That didn't take too long!!
Quick search found jumbos offered by:
Bloomingbulbs.com
Brecks
Amaryllis Bulb Co
Eden Brothers (not sure if this used to be Eden's Blooms)
And as previously mentioned...
Royal Colors

I'm sure there are others, but these popped up on a Google search of "jumbo amaryllis"
K

Oh i kinda meant for them to sell to EU so certificates wouldn't be needed as i can't find anywhere selling jumbo bulbs to EU other than Royal Colors.

I mean American websites seem to be carrying them more than european ones and they are grown here. Tempted to just buy them wholesale one time.

I think that the one my daughter gave me two of the same color also I store them in the fridge so they will bloom next year I put them out in the summer and have the leaves grow big hoping this will works

Hi Lorna

Do you have a picture of the bulb? Just wondering how much it shrinks by after flowering.

My friend texted me and said he hated me as it turns out he bought me 4 and they were real heavy to lug back. lol I asked him if he wrote down what colour they were and he said no but then i said it doesn't matter, they will likely all be red anyway. lol

AJ....I am laughing! I hope that you are disappointed and that they are all beautiful and different (AND NOT RED!).
K

I hope so too. A giant papilio would be awesome.

Otherwise it is going to be a consumer expose!

AJ, i live in the netherlands, and pretty often it really is the bulb on the photo, the only wrong one came out as a magic green instead of a minerva.

Good to hear that Snarfie. To get a jumbo magic green instead of minerva would be a blessing for me. :)

I could take a picture tomorrow but I did not take it out of the pot because it still growing it leaves and boy are they dark green the pot does not have any drainage which I wonder why

So i finally went to pick them up from my friend who was just too lazy to mail me them. He did keep the jumbo ones in the fridge, although in a plastic bag so there was alot of mould but i cleaned that off. They had alot of roots which makes me think they were real fresh and had i gotten them planted, alot of those roots would have still been alive.

The kicker was that they were 50cm+ in circumference, now i know why he complained about the weight. lol Going to have trouble finding a pot big enough and then a window sill that can accomodate them! O_O And there i was complaining about the small size of the japanese ones and yet these are too humungous.

See AJ...I didn't mislead. I have normal "lady-sized" hands and they were HUGE! Glad you aren't disappointed! Next time you'll go right when your friend gets home!
:-)
K

Wow, is that a lid from a box from a carton of copier paper?!

Kristi: I was wrong to doubt you. lol In my mind jumbo was 40cm... didn't expect them to be 50 and one is supposed to be papilio. Yeah he kept saying he would send them.. and here we are months later with many rotted bulbs. lol Those babies make up for it though.

The box on the left i think is from a copier box, the box on the right is the lid of a shoe box as i was letting them dry out a bit before i packed them up to send.

If they are 16cm in diameter... would a 20cm pot be ok? I was going to use a half pot.. it is about 10cm tall.. if i sat the bulb at the top do you think that would be ok?

I am soooo tempted to chip the papilio and end up with many babies. XD

Get blooms out of em before dream of chipping!!! 20cm would allow a little less than an inch between pot and bulb, so should be ok. Instead of cuttage, I'd consider notching next season...

Have fun and we expect photos of blooms!! Hope they aren't all Red Lion!!
K