Free Free to a good home lily tubers

[addy1]

All the lilies have new homes!

Hope they do well for you. When they bloom I can tell which is which by the flower, usually.

 

[Parrot lady]

All the lilies have new homes!

Hope they do well for you. When they bloom I can tell which is which by the flower, usually.

I got my lilies yesterday! They look great. Thank-you!

 

[addy1]

That was fast! One day....

 

[Parrot lady]

That was fast! One day....

I know. I didn't know what in the world it was when I got the box! Lol

 

[JamieB]

Darn, if only I’d caught this thread sooner! I need more for the planted tank, which as they grow, will go to the pond next year. Oh well!

 

[addy1]

I have a few that need tubers yanked. Noticed how full they were but didn't want to deal with it. May be sending more out in the spring.

 

[KDubU]

I missed this too. Bugger.

 

[SherrysPond]

I am so excited about my little tubers! ( Some are biggies!) Thank you Addy1!!!! I dont have a clue how to over winter them......I sunk some down in pots in specal kitty clay kitty litter to the bottom of my pond, It never freezes, and put some in the shed in damp kitty litter, covered in the shed. What is best , and what is the best way to plant them in the spring so I get nice lillies? I saw something about using oil pans?

 

[addy1]

The best, if you don't want to bother planting them right now. Put in a mesh bag, weigh down with a rock and sink them. I save tubers, if I don't get rid of all, over winter that way. They do fine.

Planting. I use walmart oil pans, put around 1/4 cup osmocote in the bottom of the pan, cover with litter, place the tuber with the growing tip up out of the litter. I try to get the growing point heading towards the center of the pot.

 

[SherrysPond]

How do you tell where the growing tip is???..... they look like alien life forms with tentacles.........

 

[j.w]

The end w/all the little buds coming up out of is the tip. On the right in this photo. The butt end is tipless and drab and you butt it up against your pot so the growing tip can reach out and grow across the pot. Keep growing tip above soil level and not buried.

 

[Lisak1]

Perfect picture to illustrate that @addy1 !

 

[addy1]

Perfect picture to illustrate that @addy1 !

lol that was @j.w

Also since I groomed them hard, ie big leaves cut off look for tiny leaves, a group of stems, etc. All of the lilies I sent had see-able growing tips . If unsure save it for spring, toss in a net bag, weigh with a rock and sink, they will start growing and be real easy to tell the growing tips.

 

[SherrysPond]

Okay, thank you guys!!

 

[andyk]

Any chance this thread is still alive? I'm new here but am trying to get my pond filled with plants now that I am in year two. Year 1 definitely did not have enough!