Question
AHA!  The northern way of keeping seeds until time to plant must be the answer to how plants are ready for Christmas when they are now blooming naturally in mid-July.  That was going to be my question -- how to force budding at a specific time, like Christmas, in hot Florida.  Google got me here. I can send you a foto of this beautiful white with red veins amaryllis (I think) that I saved from the garbage about 5 years ago.

Answer
Hi Marie,
I have been growing my amaryllis for many years now.  They love to be somewhat rootbound, so I have them in the same container.  I leave mine in the basement, no water or light, just a dark, cool, not freezing basement and then bring them up when I'm ready for them to start blooming.  Once the bulbs are watered regularly and returned to a sunny, warm environment, they will send up their blossom stalks rather quickly.  I think it takes a couple of weeks, so I would start watering the bulbs about the first of December and they should be flowering a little bit before Christmas.  I hope that helps.
Tom