Re[2]: Lilium Seed Germination

     Thanks Ruth,
      
     I've sprinkled some on the gravel of the pot where the parent plant is  
     and put some in a mini propagator on a windowsill, so cross fingers. I  
     did get a little disheartened by another reply that it will take up to  
     four years to get those wonderful flowers, may have to pick up some  
     more plants at the next plant show I'm at.  They cost from 90p to  
     £1.20 here, which seems nothing compared to the time and effort to get  
     them to flowering age.  I am gaining a lot of respect for the  
     nurserymen (&women) from this list.
      
     I suppose the timescale thing means I will have to wait a number of  
     years to get flowers from my cyclamen seedlings which have made it to  
     their second year in a small pot.
      
     And then there's the Agapanthus seed ( yes seed, its not a typo) to  
     wait for too.  I have become spoiled by the speed cuttings take to  
     mature.
      
     Karen
      
     ps - Our winters are nothing like as cold as yours, I was never there  
     in summer, so can't comment.


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Subject: Re: Lilium Seed Germination
Author:  Non-HP-RuthieB (RuthieB@worldnet.att.net) at  
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Date:    01/10/99 23:36


>     I have just collected two pods full of seeds from my lilium formosanum  
>     priceii & I'm now thinking "now what?"
>
>     Any tips on germination & getting seedlings (ever optomistic) through  
>     the winter?
      
      
Karen- I have one of those and just let it go to seed on its own last year  
and I have seedlings all around it.  Had to think why I had all these grassy  
looking things in front bed and then looked at the lily!  I did nothing but  
let them do their thing entirely on their own outdoors.  I am in the Seattle  
area so we may have similar conditions. I don't know.
      
Good luck!
Ruth
      
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