Your crinum bulb has been dug up, broken apart from his brothers, washed in a soapy bleach solution, dried and run the Post Office machinery. It’s tired. It’s stressed. But, it’s healthy.

n the first summer that you have a crinum, it is going to spend most of the time developing roots and leaves. It may flower. But, that first flower likely will be sort of stunted and even floppy. In the first summer, it is also developing its flower stalk for next year. In the first winter, mostly likely, its leaves will all go dormant. In spring, its leaves come out again. In the second spring and summer, you’ll probably get flowers AND you’ll probably see a ‘pup’ or two. ‘Pups’ are the little plantlets that come up at the base, actually from the very bottom of the crinum bulb.

Again, in summer, the crinum is setting its flower stalks for NEXT summer. So water regularly. That means once a week if it doesn’t rain. Fertilizer once a month. After this, you probably never have to water or fertilizer your crinum again. But, to keep it really flowering heavy and growing strong, I fertilize at least once in summer and add compost in winter. In the thirds and later summer, your crinum will become a clump. You can divide it but it just gets more and more beautiful, so I recommend leaving it alone and searching for some new plants to for playing.