Ok, thanks again Beaker. I will try to get them potted up this afternoon.
Steve
New here - Hi!
I've sent a question off to the Northstar Lily Society "Ask Lil E. Um". I received a note from Parks indicating that while they were replacing the damaged bulbs, they should be planted anyway because they will grow next year. I guess I've heard enough conflicting advice on this, that I'd like a deffinite answer. I know my own experience when I've accidentally broken a stem in my garden, appears that it does not regrow. However, I'm not sure as I've come to the conclusion that many of my lilies were bred with running shoes and some seem to move by several inches from where I expect them to come up.
I'll let you know what Lil E. Um has to say.
LOL, at Lil E. Um.........that's too funny! Yes, please let me know what 'she' says, I'd like to know too, but haven't been brave enough to find out.
It seems I get broken lilys every year...from birds, rabbits and even the yorkie. Most of the time they come back the next year. However, sometimes its two years ...and then small stems shoots up..instead of just one.(I think that the small stems are new plants coming up from the scales of the original bulb)
Three years ago, in th spring I moved a patch of trumpet Lilies that were about 3 ft tall already. I dug up the whole clump, and while moving it I broke off 1 stalk right at the bulb.
I thought what the heck, and planted only the stalk....it continued to grow, although I do not remember if it bloomed. The next year it did come back....It even reached 6ft tall(it was huge). This year there are now 4 stalks coming up.
You're kidding! From just the stalk? Experiment time. I have a Midnight with a broken stalk that I haven't done anything with yet. The stalk is about 3 inches. I'm going to put it in a pot and see what happens. If you remember, how deep did you plant that stalk?
The stalk grew? I'm for sure going to try it. I think I might break a stalk off on purpose. Was the stalk snapped above or below the soil line?
Steve
Steve, he said he broke it off right at the bulb while trying to move a clump. I would assume that the break area had been underground at least 6 to 8 inches, but the break itself occurred above ground. Make sense?
Right. I get it :) I missed that part. Maybe I was spacing out again :D
Steve
Leftwood, Mud_Blood and Kooger, I split up the remaining scales between us. About 7 apiece. I won't get to the Post Office until Tuesday morning, so be looking for them either late or early next week. Sometimes I think these bubble envelopes take longer than regular mail.
YEAH!!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for being so generous! Does each scale set just one bublet or will they set multiple bulblets?
I have 2 or 3 on several I have going right now.
If I am not off my rocker here, I think if you have stem roots on the broken portion of the stem it stands a chance of growing. No stem roots, it is just a cut stem. I broke one off while weeding this last week and it had about an inch of stem roots and so I just popped it back in the ground. We'll see!
I was digging up a lily bulb broken off at the base of the stem and dug up a small off shoot as well...it broke off too at the base...but had some roots attached...I planted both the broken off off shoot and the small blublet. They both seem to be doing okay. The stem of the bulblet has grown and the blublet has thrown out more roots, although no leaves yet.
It was a large stalk...2ft or larger...I think 4"-6" deep. I wondered since then if it grew because there was part of the crown of bulb attached or if it set out roots from stem leave joints. Do lilys do that?
I stuck a busted peice of stem in liast month and it just stayed there for a while, looking green but doing nothing. So I decided to pull it out.
Maybe I should have left it.....
Perhaps....since it stayed green...who knows
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Yeah, I was just thinking that....we just had a couple days of rain so maybe it might have grown.......DARN!
Steve