are meant to be big! Yes, that is sitting beside the tiller tines which are 10 inches across!
This was planted in the fall of 2005 and was tennis ball sized, which I thought was fairly impressive. The one on the right split off as I was carrying the monster to it's new residence!
Wow! You should go into business with buggy!
I swear, the bigger they are, the more tasty they look. LOL
That one's just SCRUMPTIOUS !
Good heavens!
Oh and I bet they smell great, too!
Yummy!
Sooo, what or WHO have you been feeding to grow those aliens????
Wow! Just planted some today from American Meadows and should have taken a picture; had a double that was 6" across.
Plus the ones I bought from Llilyfan were great as well.
I think that is probably the nicest compliment I have ever received pardalinum!
They were only about 2½ inches below the surface of the soil and I hate to admit they were totally neglected this year. Other bulbs were not even there when I went to dig them, just a void in the soil where the bulb used to be, or this super tiny bulb that were smaller than the stem bulbils along the stem.
What surprised me was how well most of the LAs did. I really thought that late freeze would stunt them since alot of the main stems were frozen off.
Is anybody noticing strange behavior in their lilies? I have 2 that are putting up stems right now and 1 of the even had buds on it. I picked off the buds so none of the energy would be wasted. I just don't know if this bulb will survive the winter since it was a newly planted Canadian bulb. The other is a l.pardilinum...1 of the 3 bulbs is sending up a stem. It didn't send one up this spring, those are some confused lilies!
I thought they smelled kinda earthy....was going to say dirty, but Moby would have a field day with that!!!!
Meeee? Why would you such a thing??
Ooops! Thought you wouldn't be listening! ;-)
I am when someone says 'dirty'! >;)
Had some lilies that needed to be spread out and came up with this juicy thing ~
I too dug up a lily to move it as it wasn't getting the sun I thought it should have and pulled this out of the ground. This lily has only been in the ground 2 years and it was no where's near this big when I planted it. The only thing I can think of that made it get this big in such short of time is the rabbit poop. LOL I have rabbits running around and they leave thier little 'pellets' here there and everywhere.
Wow you guys!!! You got some bigga da bulbs, there.... I haven't noticed any of my lilies trying to sprout, but I do have peony trying to stick their little eyes out and about...
How weird is this weather; don't think I have anything odd going on here but maybe I better look closer.
Mulch, mulch , mulch!
I just read on Steve's birthday thread that he has an asiatic sprouting which he planteed just a week or so ago. So this wierdness is not just happening here. I was going to pop the last of my lily bulbs in the ground today, I hope it cools down so they will go to sleep.
Mulch is great to even out soil temps and hold moisture, but I don't normally mulch my newly planted areas until we get a significant cool down in soil temps. After they cool down I hope to hold them at above freezing temps for an extra week. Here we are mid November (almost) and we have only had 1 freeze so far. Not even all of my tender annuals have died yet.
Lilyfan are you rubbing it in? LOL It was 21 degree's here this morning, everything is sleeping.
Pixie, is your ground frozen?
Tis now! LOL It has been in the 20's every morning for the last 4-5 days. We have gotten up as high as 45 during the day, but cools down quickly by sunset. My planting is done, so says Mother Nature!
It's surprising how big bulbs shallow in the ground still do well. I can attest to that too.
My ground isn't even thinking of freezing.
Was out all day mulching and running out of mulch. Hope I can get everyting protected. Have lost Orientals before because I didn't mulch; that was in my early "stupid" days.
If you run out of mulch, remember Casa Blanca and Black Beauty are very hardy and should be fine on their own without mulch. At least they are with me in z4a.
Thanks for the reminder.
Well........if the mud sticks I might be rubbing it in!
I am going to finish my planting today, no matter what, I plan on being doneI I just bought a few more bulbs at the store for some very early spring bloom....
Wow big bulbs everyone! Me jealous :-(
Yes, mine are sprouting too. I am worried that what I did plant will break dormancy and then will be destroyed in December or January and then no flowers for another year :-(
So, llilyfan, did you +FINALLY get everything planted?
Well........ I DID get all the lilies in the ground. I've got just a few to pop in today, some buttercups and windflowers, and then I am done.... I hope!
Does anyone know if you need to have daffodil bulbs in something slightly moist when you give them a cold period for forcing? (damp peat in a baggie in the refridgerater) I bought some to force for my DD's birthday in February. Should I just pot them up and put them in a protected place outside?
Daffs are special bulbs in that they must produce root initials in the fall if roots are to grow in the spring. Root initials (think of them as very small roots) cannot be produced in the spring. So yes, they must be planted in the fall, in Sept if it is outside, so they can form the initials before cold sets in. Planting them in a pot and directly placing them into the frig would probably also negate the process too.
So plant them and put them somewhere as close to 50F as you can find. But I am pretty sure 60F would work too. I suspect an attached garage would be the best place. I'm guessing 4 weeks ought to do it, then in the frig until they sprout, or sunk in the ground outside with protection until you are ready to bring them in and force them.
Thanks Leftwood, I'll get them potted up and put in the spare bedroom on the south. Then I will move them to the north bedroom which we don't heat. I don't have an attached garage or a basement so this is the best I can do.
Am I even close thinking 4-6 weeks from bringing them out of cool storage to bloom time?
Don't have a clue about that. I'll bet they will know on the bulb forum. Be sure to tell them what cultivar you have. In fact if you search, I'll bet it's been asked several times. I did some forcing with Tete-a-Tete, Iris cristata and MDB iris once. Of course there is no data I found on the Iris cristata, but whatever recommendations I found searching the web, was right on. I figured things would go faster in a warmer house, but also figured I could withhold water to slow them down and put them in the frig at night if I needed to. You could also water them with warm water to speed them up. But don't crank up the heat unless you really need to. That speeds 'em up, but makes them even more leggy.
The iris I was forcing for a mid March Rock Garden Society banquet. Couldn't have worked out better, as some iris bloomed that day, and some the next. Some I had refrigerated for two nights. I was so proud of myself. One thing about cristata though: the ones I dug in the fall and potted, didn't survive. The ones I potted up the previous spring did great. They were much slower to first emerge, but then caught up.
