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Propagating lilies

21 years ago

Hi everybody! We're new in all these gardening and plants issues and wanted to start with easy plants and flowers. We have some oriental lilies plants in our garden and we were wondering if we would be able to propagate them cutting a flower bulb with its leave and putting it on root hormone and all that stuff. We know that these plants are very, very easy to propagate in other different ways (like roots, etc...), but maybe there is another way. We'd appreciate you input. Thanks!!

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georgez5il
21 years ago
Seed or division. usually single or clumps of whole bulbs. if a bulb is cut. coat with sulfur or other fungicede. rooting hormone not needed,
chuckr30
21 years ago
Why would you go to the trouble of rooting? You could use above-ground bulbils, or below-ground mini-bulbs. Also, baby plants often sprout next to the parent plant, just pull those off the parent and plant them where you want.
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white_sapphire
21 years ago
Reader's Digest Plant Propagation by Alan Toogood. I love this book and keep it at hand always!
It has several methods of propagating lilies.

Hope it helps.

Sylvia

p.s. if you can't find it, email me.

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