Mags, this is a pic of the lily "Arena" that I dug out of a grouping of lilies. I think it has a virus?
What do you think?
I did pot it up and it is away from the rest of my lilies. Just wish to see what the blossom looks like when it opens.
Maxine
Now that one looks ill. The leaves have the same pattern that a virus causes on the flowers. Arena may be difficult to tell via the flower since it is primarily white.
Maxine, I would toss it. The leaves are deformed as well as discolored.
Geez! I was hoping to find good news. I'm really concern about this Lilies' virus.
Oh yeah, that lily looks baaaaad. Toss it.
I'm a lily novice and even I don't think that one looks good.... I'm sorry Maxine!
Diann
MagnoliaLover, Hope you isolated and saved as many as you could. I treat my pale whatevers with chelated iron and epsom salts. I also use alfalfa & manure tea mixture for watering. It stinks while it is cooking.
inanda
Busy night here, but Yikes! Maxine, that one does look sick. It looks equal to or worse than the one I tossed. Were aphids worse for you last year too, Maxine?
inanda, I'd love to have your stinky recipe. Will you share it? You see I have this test plot ready for experimentation now.
No aphids or bugs of any kind. Just showed up like overnight.
Maxine
Alfalfa Recipe
1-45 gal clean drum
Mosquito netting
14 - 15 double handfuls of pure alfalfa horse cubes
(without corn additives) Corn inhibits germination so I stay away from it. If you can get rabbit pellets
without corn, pellets are much easier to use. Molasses is OK but pure alfalfa is best
14 -16 shovelfuls old manure(here in town have to buy by the bag)
7 - 8 heaping tablespoons epsom salts
Fill barrel with water, cover with mosquito netting (west nile) and let stand for a week or two, till you cant stand the smell. Beware small children. When you have used the water, refill barrrel with water & salts and wait again. 2nd time barrel is all used up, spread the sludge where it will do most good and start again.
I use alfalfa a lot. Full of micro-nutrients. Trace elements. When living in the country had 3 barrels on the go. Here in town use 5 gal ex-food buckets. Not safe for barrels in this urban setting. 3 or 4 double handfuls alfalfa cubes, 2 - 3 shovels manure, couple tablespoons epsom salts. Where acidity is needed (japanese iris) add vinegar to each watering can.
inanda
Inanda, how much vinagar to a quart container? I've been search for miracid without much luck. How often do you water with the vinagar?
Inanda...sounds great. I shall try it.
JIs and vinegar. I use every time I water them. We have very alkaline soil here. I don't measure. Just add a splodge to the watering can every time I water. I have baby pine cones as mulch around them but don't know it that does any good. I like to think so. Only have 7 or so. Doesn't take too much time to water them. Recntly mulched with compost and then more baby pine cones.
Had a wopsies nest in my compost last fall so couldn't use. Just finished emptying that bin and rebuilding with new pallets. OT I know. Waiting for it to warm up a bit to get outside.
inanda
Just visited the hosta forum. Funnilly enough found this over there re alfalfa. Guess I better toddle off to the feed store soon. Have never used alfalfa on hostas. Use it all the time on lilies and iris.
http://hostafaq.westside.com/wsContentPublisher/story.view?Rowld=16
inanda
edited to correct a typo.
This message was edited May 28, 2007 5:47 AM
ah...wopsies?
Yea Mags, found a couple of more that had virus. Good think I was in the weeding mode this morning after finishing up weeding in the garden.
Where in the world does this come from? These were two of my largest orien/pets.
Maxine
So does this mean that because mine is growing sideways that there is something wrong with it? It grew straight last year in a pot. It was transplanted inground early this spring.
Your foliage looks healthy, vossner. Every year the new stalk has to find it's way out of the bulb and it follows the route of least resistance. Of course most stalks grow straight up but there are always a few that have a problem. I wouldn't try to straighten it as it might break off.
so it's not sick. what do I do if anything. I know about the breaking, I already broke one trying to get it straight.
Just put up with it's persnickiness for the season. You might prop it up a few inches with a block of wood but don't push your luck! Really I see no sign of disease such as discoloration, twisted, contorted foliage, die-off of leaves (symptom of botrytis).
thanks pard.
vossner, the foliage looks good on that one from here.
Maxine I have to hope it was a bad spring and that all of these lilies aren't full of virus. Dig, isolate, trhen wait and see on any that are questionable.
Nery, what type of lily is that laying n the ground? I wonder of you trenched it, if it would put of new bublets?
I think this is a Menorca
Oh, goodie! Are you up for an experiment to create bulblets seeing as the stem is on the ground anyway?
beaker_ch,
I've several that I would do the experiment. ... like that one that's producing bubils on the stalk. Should I bury the young plant with bulbils and all?
Didn't rain too much yesterday till PM so wasn't playing inside. Wopsies = wasps. Maye ourcold has FINALLY left for the summer so will again start hardening things off. I want to get things in the ground, particularly lilies that shouldn't still be inside anyway.
inanda
yep, I'm up for it. Do I need to do anything or just let it be?
inanda,
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out where in the globe are you? May I ask? Canada? How cold does it get there in zone 2?
Kim
Nery, seeing as this is an LA, I'm hoping the longiflorium in it will help produce bulblets other than at the mother bulb site. It looks like it already bloomed, so cut off what's left of the bloom. LAs will not produce seed.
Where the leaves start at the bottom of the stem, with a very sharp knief make a little cut at the base of the leaf into the stem. You can do as many as you want or just a few. Cover up to 1/3 of the stem with soil leaving the top 2/3s in the sun. To keep your soil from runniing away on you, peg down with a little mesh type fabric, netting or screen material.
This process is called trenching. After sometime, maybe four to six weeks, you should see bulblets forming where you made the nicks. Leave them unitl fall and then plant out to a depth of about one inch. You should see flowers in a year or two.
Do not use this same plant for trenching next year. Also, you can create the trenching affect by digging up a plant and tipping it so that it lays at an angle from the ground.
will do. thanks for the instructions. One more question. We are going thru a very rainy spell right now. Show I wait a couple of days until rain subsides?
Lily love ~ inanda lives in Manitoba, Canada
Thanks, Moby.
Sure, wait a bit for your rainy spell to quit. You have a longer growing season, so I don't think it would matter.
Oh Magnolialover - I am new to this forum - my heart bleeds for you. There is something I always read from from my favorite garden writer Henry Mitchell for those dark moments.
" It is not nice to garden anywhere. Everywhere there are violent winds, startling once -per-five-centuries floods,unprecedented droughts, record-setting freezes, abusive and blasting heats never known before. There is no place, no garden where these terrible things do not drive gardeners mad.... Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of Irises ... Defiance is what makes gardeners."
Well, if that doesn't stiffen the backbone and make you proud to be a dirt encrusted gardener, nothing will.
Welcome, darcy!
Thank you , darcy for the poem. How true it is..... welcome to the lily forum.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Darcy, thank you for sharing. Welcome to our group.
Hi Mag, any new development with your lilies?
Moby; have you ever tried Voodoo Lily, since you mentioned you've a taste for some rare and unusual plants and their traits.
Beaker_ch; I've a few tiny lilies with builblets growing on top of the plants, what should I do with them? I've no clues. (I believe those are Tiger lilies?) I'll quarantine them for the duration, planting them in something separate from my lilies bed.
Kim
lol Voodoo Lily is very cool, but not the stench!
