Growing native Lilium from seed
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:17:33 PDT)

Jim McKenny asked for more information about the Lilium I grew from seed
sown Oct 2007 that is now blooming. I can't remember how often I watered
the seed pots before the seed germinated. I left the pots outside and
usually we get enough rain once it starts to keep seed pots moist until
something comes up. If the pots I have outside look dry, I water them, but
otherwise I let nature do its thing. Once the seeds germinated and were a
reasonable size I followed John's advice and separated them into their own
pots and kept potting them up when the roots filled the pot. I kept
watering them as long as they were growing. Eventually they went dormant
but I don't think it was until fall and then I stopped watering them. After
that they would have not been watered until it starting raining again. It
doesn't look like I made a record of when they reappeared this spring. Only
two are blooming, but I've never gotten any Lilium to bloom so quickly
before so it definitely seems like a good system to follow in the future.

Mary Sue

Mary Sue Ittner
California's North Coast
Wet mild winters with occasional frost
Dry mild summers