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plntsrok wrote:
You can "plant" them, (maybe cover them with a small amount of regular soil), or let them fall where they may. they will send down a shoot and start forming a true bulb. It is much easier than germinating and planting seeds and I am told you end up with a bloom a year or so earlier too.
I have never put them into a pot but I suppose potting soil would work. Mnorberry, have you?
I currently have the pale yellow variety of L. lancifolium, (formerly L. tigrinum), in bloom, (var. flaviflorum), as well as the dark red L. leichtlinii var. maximowiczii which is a variety of the brighter yellow L. leichtlinii, which may be blooming today. Here are some photos respectively, from last year. The first one is L. lancifolium flaviflorum, which also has bulbils.