This is my first year/ season with them. So I cut the blooms off after they have faded? How should I take care of it?
Gloriosa lily question
Are they in the ground or in large pots? If you're Z 10 I think you can leave them in the ground. I grow em in large pots up here which are overwintered without water in the basement. The tubers multiply quite readily either way, quite prolifically down there in the ground as one DG-er reported some time ago. I understand you can allow seed to form to also raise but like you I remove spent blooms.
well let's keep going with this topic. after they bloom you can either remove the blooms or try to collect seed? otherwise what do you do with the plant? water it or not? will they all go dormant after blooming? do they bloom longer in the shade or do they need full sun....even texas sun? and as long as drainage is good are the dormant tubers o.k. in the ground until next year? and i am zone 8a. i read somewhere that some people did keep them in the ground. i plan to keep some out of the ground and some in the ground with mulch to see if they will come back. but when do you dig them? can i dig them now as some of them are already dormant?
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.
I"m in Z 10 so I will not be doing any digging... I have not seen any seeds.... I guess I'll wait a bit longer...