Asiatic lily

I am from Brunei.

I have planted Asiatic lily bulb last March which had bloomed beautifully. In August some had been dying back and many had produce bubils and offsets. I found some sprout but with very strange foliage..it has very big leaf and had no stem at all.. I dig out it which turn out to be a full size bulb formation.

My question is why does my newly grown lily has strange leaf (shape look like amaryllis)..will it bloom without a stem since the bulb itself is fully formed.

Thank you

these are the lily

In my experience, the lilies grown from bulbils and offsets need to grow several years before they produce flowers. The different leaves are because the plant is immature.

Thank you carefreecynthia..I will try to be patient to get the plant to be mature and will update any development here..so excited though as this is my first experience wit lily which is rather rare plant in our country..

Have fun! Lilies are great plants.

updated picture of my baby lily.

The sprout appeared from the middle part of a fully form bulb. Initially I thought it gonna have a stem. Unfortunately as it grows bigger it look more like an amaryllis leaf without stem...I wonder if this is still normal?

Could a young, smaller amaryllis bulb have gotten mixed i with the other lily bulbs? It sure looks like an amaryllis to me?

I agree. Looks like amaryllis leaves to me as well.

Thanks for your reply..it is planted in a pot in which there is no way any amaryllis would have a chance to get into it..i am 100% sure it sprouts of the ex-mother plant of Asiatic lily.

I can hardly wait until it blooms for you!

Me too.

You know, over the many years I have been gardening, lots of oddities have popped up where I didn't expect them. Sometimes a seed, and many bulbs grow from seeds, will find it's way into the mix and germinate where I least expect it to. Right now I have an amaryllis seedling growing out of a tree stump. I had covered the stump with soil and stuck a few succulents there and one day these strap like leaves came up. I'll let it grow a bit then transplant it to a bed with other bulbs. I love surprises like that.

If you dig up the bulb and rinse off the soil you could tell what kind of bulb it is. Asiatic lily bulbs and amaryllis bulbs look very different. The Asiatic lily bulb will have scales, this article shows them clearly. http://hortipedia.blogspot.com/2011/08/growing-propagating-lily-bulbs-from.html
The amaryllis bulb is tunicate or smooth like an onion.

Thanks ardesia..I did what u have suggested to dug up the soil. yes confirm it is asiastic lily..i wil update the latest pic of its development in few mth time..see if it ever bloom in this new shape...

perhaps you can also share pic of yur strange amaryllis..i luv it as well..

i wil share my amaryllis later once the bud opens..perhaps in few weeks time..

cheers

Interesting, you must have a sport of your original lily. I am looking forward to seeing it bloom. It is dark now, I'll try and take a photo of my amaryllis seedling tomorrow.

latest update from my pervious entry:

..my lily at last bloom...I am really excited..it is as healthy as it was before when I first got it from Australia..i did not need to dig it out of the pot in order to put the bulb in the refrigerator..it seem to adapt well under the tropical climate..perhaps a good news is that I can enjoy the bloom all year round from each the plant..

Sheed, I'm really interested in planting lilies and I'm a newbie with them. Im really surprised seeing your lilies doing well in tropical climate which is much the same in Malaysia. Currently Im doing some research on lilies.So here are some of the question I would like to ask before I start hunting for these lilies.


1) Im aware that you are planting Asiatic Lilies. Do all your Asiatics able to bloom or rebloomed without having to dig up the bulbs and put them in the refrigerator???

2) What kind of soil did you plant them with?

3) How deep did you plant the bulbs? Have you faced any rot problem with the bulb?

3) How do you water them??Daily?Weekly?

5) Do you put them in full sun or in shade?

6) Do you use any fertilizer?What kind?How much?How Frequent?

7) If you are able to grow Asiatic Lilies in the tropics...will we be able to plant Oriental Lilies as well?


Please advice me Sheed...seeing you able to grow that lilies kills meeee @____@"

Thankyou for your mail..i thought I am all alone being a fan of lily in this side of the world..

My apology for the late reply as i didn't visit this web for a long time.

I will try to answer to your questions though I have to admit that I am not a real expert.

1. Yes all the Asiatic lilies will bloom when you first plant it (3-4weeks after planting) in the 1st year. Then it will take the same cycle of being died but the bulb still survive if it not got rotten..they will rebloom in the second year but don't be surprise that to see the leafs sprouting from the soil without a stem...after few months it will go through another cycle whereby you gonna see a stem sprouting in the middle which take the same form of the Asiatic lily plant (when u first plant it). this bulb was not being refrigerated.

I have tried to put some in the refrigeration. The reblooming will be faster as you gonna see the stem sprout like usual..In short i would say yes, lily may not be put in the refrigeration to get it bloom.

2. Plant it in a ready mix potting soil that normally being sold in nursery and mix with compost

3. I plant my lilies in small pot..bulb planted about less then 2" depth. Yes some of my bulbs did rot..those i consider unlucky one.

4. I water every alternate day or 2days once..always check the soil..if it is dry then you water it.

5. I put under the shade.

6. I don't see they are very choosy..fertilizer high in 'P' works better though. Normally we see NPK in any fertilizer right. But i sometime use water after cleaning the fish or rice. Original fertilizer i would term them.

7. Oriental lilies hardly could survive.. Even if they survive they are not able to reproduce babies.(in my case they able to bloom in the first year but gone after that).The worst is stargazer which completely died when planted.

You may contact me on my email rosidah.arh@gmail.com if you wish to do so.

cheers.




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the second year blooming in Brunei..this particular one happen to be very tall..about 5'

this batch just planted april 2015...bloomed beautifully June2015

That's interesting, I wanted to grow lilies as well but gave up on the idea. Tried with Hippeastrum (Amaryllis), even put the plants in the fridge. They grew well, produced huge bulbs and lots of pups, but never flowered. Eventually found one Hippeastrum that would flower here, red coloured, the only one you ever see around. But no lilies. The climate here is pretty much the same as Bangkok.

Dear tropicbreeze...

My Asiatic lily some were from Perth ..I don't see why it fail to survive at your place...

The Hipps u may just clean the big bulb, cut off the foliage..wrap in paper then put in plastic for 5weeks. it should bloom after 4 weeks being planted..do not bury the whole bulb..make sure the top part is 1" above the sol.

Good luck

Thanks Sheed. The Perth climate is very different from here, much of what grows there won't grow here.

Some years back I got Hippeastrum papilio. It never goes dormant. But I might try your suggestion about wrapping it in paper and keeping it in the fridge. I did put the whole plant in the fridge overnight each night for several weeks before but that never helped. Might have been too warm for it during the day cancelling out the night time chill.