Co-op lilies are yours coming up ?

Say what?

My "Coral Sunset" is blooming today..It is the first of mine to bloom, but others are not far behind..

Larkie

Good to hear, Larkie. You're making me jealous!

Brenda ~ what about your fish??
Or you are adept at using Babelfish? ;) lol Pretty handy tool, eh?

This Lollipop lilly had sprouted in the bag when I bought it this spring. The poor thing already had tiny buds that I more than likely should have removed. I planted it and now it's about an inch high and has bloomed. I don't know how the poor little guy is going to make food for next year with that little foliage!

Quite eager to bloom wasn't this little fella? You might think about putting some extra fertilizer around this guy after he's done blooming. Something high in phosphorus will help stimulate root growth and perhaps give it a good start for its first winter in the ground since he's such a runt. You may also look at high nitrogen fertilizer like alfafa pellets or tea to give him a foliage boost. Not sure if that will promote him into putting on any new growth but wouldn't imagine it could hurt either.

Vraiment mes amies. H2G2 en francais, babelfish est le meme chose, babelfish.
Inanda

H2G2??? Interpreter please. lol

Inanda do you agree with the suggestion on billums l'il Lollipop? What advice would you give?

H2G2 Sorry about this. Guess book-talk doesn't carry over to lily-talk too easily.
H2 = Hitch-Hiker's
G2 = Guide to the Galaxy

Yes, good advice. I would remove the blooms right away.
The season is young. Many months for the bulb to plump up and bloom normally next year.

Lollypop will prob. be fine next year.

Inanda - who is currently reading POB canon from end to end. So .... what am I reading??

Good grief... haven't read Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy in years. Must be time to read it again. : )

I was looking over my co-op lily plants today (they have finished blooming) and was shocked to see bulblets on 4 stalks!!



Edited to correct grammar... : - }


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Wow....lucky you Donna. Extras!

Wow... I've seen bulbils but bulblets with roots?? I didn't know they did that. Are these proliferations?

Bulbils! Thank you, moby!! I felt sure I was using the wrong term, but was just too excited to take the time to find the right word.


I've never heard the term 'proliferations' used in conjunction with lilies. Where can I learn more about it?

I agree, I've never heard the term 'proliferations' used in conjunction with lilies either. But that sure looks like what they are. Hmm.... very interesting!

Moby!!! We missed you!

Nope, those are definitely bulblets on the stem. It does happen but this NALS site says it usually is on the underground portion of the stem.

http://www.lilies.org/propagation.html

Donna - I meant to ask what cultivar these are on? Is the same or 4 different varieties?

I was wondering the same thing, Brenda.

Donna, I think your terminology was not completely incorrect. Bulbils look like a little ball sitting on the leaf axil, but yours really look like bulblets ~ especially with the roots.

Anybody else think Donna ought to try slicing those little babies off and pot them up?

Nope. Don't remove them. The NALS website says to leave on until fall and then when you cut the stem off to separate the area with the rooted bulbets and plant that stem section with bulblets attached in a nursery bed. They apparently are quite fragile and need the stem to provide their food source or something. They weren't really clear on that point.

The only thing about Donna's that concerns me is that because she's so far South and has that infamous Texas heat and sun that they may fry before fall gets to her. I think a lot depends on what Donna's normal lily cycle is...meaning the bloom to dormancy cycle.

Steve may have some more relevant thoughts since he's down that way.

Thank you, Brenda. After looking at some pictures on the 'Net I believe you're right.

The variety is, I think, 'Coral Sunset'.

Yep Brenda, Donna's heat was precisely the reason I was thinking she might want to try starting them before too late in the hot season. That way she could pot and tend to them in a little more temperate (shady) area.

Well, all the discussion is for naught asI have already removed them and planted them in separate container. Since the lilies that bloomed before these have already died back I figured it was only a matter of time before these did, as well. So, while it was cool and rainy today, I slipped them off the stalk, into half a gal milk jug filled with soil and put them under grow lights on the back porch. Once established I'll try them out in the hoop house that's covered with 80% shade cloth.

As soon as I see bulbils leafing out, I pick them and plant, usually around/near stem of the mother. Of course, Manitoba zone 2b, is slightly (?) different than zone 9. Can't remember ever seeing roots forming though.

Last summer had tons and tons growing on some non-blooming bulbs bought in a bag. I buried the entire stem and now must have 100 or more babies sprouting.

Have often found bulbils growing on stems where I have debudded the stem so that the bulb will grow and not put energy into flowering.

Inanda