Lilies: Gloriosa lily question, 1 by jmorth

jmorth wrote:
Yes, you can do either, I usually snip off the flowers as tuber production gives me more than I started with yearly.
Some of my potted ones no longer have flowers but theres often other plants in their pots. Those I usually water only when necessary till fall when I allow the plants to end their cycle naturally. At that point they're taken inside for winter. They reside in their pots dry till spring when I depot and repot with new media. The ones I have in the ground continue to flower (started outside a month or so later than potted ones) and will till fall. As they revert to dormancy I extract them from the ground (carefully, very brittle) and store them in perlite till next season.
I am satisfied with their growth and flower production weather growing in most sun or part sun equally.
If they're dormant I'd think you could dig em up for storage.
After flowering mine slowly slide into dormancy as evidenced by the leaves and stems yellowing. At this point I have removed all above soil line growth and taken pot to basement when they start to yellow. Once done, no water.