Seeds from bulb plants

I fertilized my amaryllis. Now that the nubs have swollen into seed pods, do I clip them off or leave them on stem while I wait for them to turn color & crack open?

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#1 Comment By MichiganDot On 03/14/2018 @ 12:38 pm

Leave them on the stem to ripen further. Once the pod is brown, the seeds are ready. It will take several years for seeds to develop a bulb big enough to bloom. Most amaryllis are hybrids; therefore, the flowers will not look exactly like the parent plant. Here is an article that discusses propagation methods: https://lancaster.unl.edu/hort/nebline/amaryllis.shtml ^[1]

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