Lilies: Help, 0 by pardalinum

pardalinum wrote:
Hi Beak-- I dump a bunch of seed starting mix into a big plastic dollar store bowl. Run the tap until the hottest water I can get comes out then sprinkle maybe a quarter of a cup over the surface, then stir and cover with a plate to keep the warm moisture in. I stir it several times over the next hour or so; it can take a while to completely wet the peat. This is my prep technique for all seed starting. Add a little more hot H2O if necessary.

I start out by zipping the bags until things are up; this helps keep the humidity in but the side notches allow some air circulation. Unless they turn out to be really vigourous they won't go into the seedling bed until next fall-2007. For the most part they spend their first season developing the bulb and not top growth. Some of these I might put into gallon pots in the spring. I started these Citronella seedlings spring '05 and I will plant them out this fall.

I have much less experience with orientals, last fall being my first try. Weird because I had fresh garden collected oriental seed sprout right away! But normally it is 3 months warm then 3 months cold, like mother nature. Typically they develop a small bulb during the first warm period, then a top leaf after the cold period. This year I will start inside then put the bags outside on my covered porch for the cool period. Assuming I get some seed, that is...