Need advice on choice of lilies

[j.w]

Yep I have found as long as you can see a growing spur like thingy that buds out from the tuber you can cut that up and make new plants. You will end up w/ tons of plants. I did that a few yrs ago and I had so many I had to give away a lot or throw them away. I would not cut the tuber up much tho, maybe in half or you will end up w/ tiny plants that take forever to mature. You can see the tiny pads on this one emerging. You need these on every cut up piece or no plants for you :lol:

http://www.hugheswatergardens.com/howto/transplantingdividingwaterlilies.pdf

 

[addy1]

all of mine are potted, none free floating, so I don't think I can mess with them right now without losing mine. oh well it was a good thought.

Next year will have tons........

 

[taherrmann4]

Well the lilly tuber that was on the bottom of the pond was slowly moving toward the skimmer so I had to pull it out and move it to another part of the pond. Just dropped it back in the water as I do not have any pots right now. Here is a pic.

 

[addy1]

nice little tuber tmann and cute toes ............love sandals, honey has to work to get me to wear shoes, I wait for the first white stuff to hit before I start wearing shoes.

 

[j.w]

You don't pot yours up at all and they grow good tmann?

Don't let his cute little bare naked toes fool ya addy. He's really a wolf in man toes clothing and if you look close you can see the hairs starting to appear

 

[addy1]

oh got it, is that what those dark stringy things are............wow, I am running......

I have all mine potted, I don't think I have enough fish poop to have them do well, so I add tabs.

 

[taherrmann4]

All my lilies are in pots but they are outgrowing them and I did not re-pot this year. That piece in the pic is of a piece that fell off and I noticed in the pond several weeks ago. Not sure if the koi knocked it loose or what. It was floating yesterday so I pulled it out and placed it in another section of the pond.

JW I think all that talk about 70's music made you go smoke some salvia and you are now having hallucinations.

What website did you find those two wolf pics they are pretty cool...

 

[j.w]

Oh ok tmann I know there is somebody on this forum who does not pot theirs and just weighs them down w/ a rock and just uses the fish to fertilize them.

So I guess you should know about the Salvia then.........thanks for the tip :lol:

Now come on tmann fess up, you know where the first one came from cuz I copied it off your avatar when it popped up

The other one (Werewolf) I had saved on photobucket in my Halloween file.............and who knows where it came from. I think some Halloween gif site out there in cyber space somewhere. Actually I just did a search and found it here: http://www.christmas-graphics-plus.com/free/animated-witches-monsters.html

I like this site for scary gifs also: http://www.mikesfreegifs.com/main4/page_3.html

 

[taherrmann4]

I think DrDave does this.