I feel the same way. if you can avoid disturbing them then do it, your flowers will be just fine.

I like your approach Arif! My bulbs, planted in beds, get left to do as they will, and they bloom every spring. I guess my bulbs in pots really are limited by how far down they can go. They are grown under different culture too, and more pampered. I plant them to their shoulders and they usually stay there.

My usual advice to all is "do what works best for you!"

Stay well my friend!

Kristi well said the bulbs in pots are pampered babies and have to suffer due to our over indulgence, unnecessary feeding,change of soil and location. The bulb only requires proper watering and no disturbance.

i am wondering if bulb depth has to do with root depth (yeah, I know, sounds like a [duh] moment). I planted mine fairly deep (shoulder depth) in really good, not sandy, continental moraine soil this past summer and got so many roots they were tough to dig up. But the bulbs were magnificent. Next year, I am adding sand so they will dig easier in the fall.

"High" plantation is advisable IF a "phyto-sanitary" reason applies. Which was the case in my "crop" due to a permanent, uncommon and in an even heartbreaking manner detrimental infestation pressure from Tarsonemid mites aka "bulb scale mites" Steneotarsonemus laticeps which form a living reservoir within the substrate. Fortunately - and mysteriously enough - this pressure has vanished since I totally abandoned the liquid fertilizer "Substral" and replaced it by a combination of solid "Nitrophoska" and liquid "Wuxal" (which contains, I kid you not, Vitamin B1 ).

HAD I the opportunity to grow Hippeastrums outdoors, in the ground, then there is no doubt that I would plant them like Daffofdil bulbs. That is, in a well prepared bed with fluffy substrate - with 20 cm of substrate under the bulb and 10 cm of substrate above the neck.

I worked at a local greenhouse for 15 years. When it went out of business after 54 years, I moved on to another local nursery. I have been a gardener my entire life... Learning a lot from my grandmother when I was but a young child. I've also grown amaryllis for as many years I can remember. I have always been of the "plant it deep" school. I've always felt that planting the bulb deeper than usually recommended provided much more stability when the stem began to elongate and develop a flower.. I have never had a problem bringing a new bulb to flowering... Or getting an older bulb to bloom again.

Thank you friends I am much more clear in my mind, each must adapt to his/her requirement and poor hippe will do its best.

I feel Papilio requires large pots I have seen the roots filling 14 inch pot and for others 8-10 inch pots are good enough, with these sizes you con bury the bulb up to neck for smaller pots its better to put it at top to give space to roots.

Papillio roots in 14 inch pot

General,the deep planting is probably benificial in your climate,because the bulb is protected from heat and drying.I have to have at least a third of the bulb above ground,because it rains so much in Florida. I've found that fewer bulbs rot that way.

Correct, the bulbs I lost were due to over watering of pots. Except for the moonson it doesn't rain much even that does not bother me as I have a well drained soil.