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Due to minor back surgery at the end of September, I haven't been able to do much gardening outside, so I have a head start on my seed cleaning this year. Forthcoming is what I have to offer for anyone who wishes to try growing lilies from seed. It was a cold summer for me, and that has resulted in delayed seed development and relatively poor pollination. Some pods I don’t even think I can mature inside the house. The easy to grow seeds were hit hard in this respect this year. I have less to offer this season, but don’t let that stop your requests. I keep what I want, and the rest eventually gets thrown away if I can’t find a willing recipient.
All seeds have been candled to be best of my ability. Candling is the process of shining a light through the seed to determining the presence of a seed embryo.
D-mail me with your address and choices. I am not part of the DG address exchange. If you want seed sent in a bubble wrap envelope, send me one and postage to go with it. Otherwise, as is the custom with Lilium enthusiasts, seed will be sent between thin padding, ample to protect the thin papery seeds. No postage reimbursement is necessary, as it will cost the same as a regular letter.
Remember that resulting seedlings of named cultivars (here be ‘Claude Shride’, ‘Super Tsing’ and ‘Mrs. R. O. Backhouse’), are not exactly the same as their parents, and so cannot be designated as the same true cultivars. They must be referred to as: seedling of ‘Claude Shride’, etc.
Easy, Immediate epigeal Seed (Category #1)
Lilium davidii var. wilmottiae open pollinated with other hybrid lilies.
Lilium amabile - hand pollinated.
Lilium formosanum var. pricei - a dwarf for of the regular Lilium formosanum. My form only grows one foot high, and each plant has one or two flowers. But the flowers are larger in proportion to the plant than they are with the full size 6 foot species. This seed was open pollinated, but the only other lilies I have that bloomed at that time were very distantly relate. Any crossing would be extremely improbable. I have a ton of these seeds. Flowers in the second season.
More Challenging Delayed Hypogeal Seed (CAtegory #2)
Lilium martagon ‘Mrs. R. O. Backhouse’ - Since I have now grown these from scales, and see for myself the beauty of this flower, there is no wonder why this very old cultivar is still around. Yellow, spotted flowers that fade to whitish, and with pink hued petal backs. Simply exquisite. This seed was open pollinated with L. martagon ‘Amelita’, and/or was produced apomictically, which is a fancy word for vegetatively. This means that if there are apomictic seeds, the resulting plants from those seeds will be an exact copy of the mother (Mrs. R.O. Backhouse). Whichever the case, I can only see excellent flower possibilities for the progeny. I have quite a lot of this seed.
Lilium martagon ‘Claude Shride’ – Open pollinated with other martagon type lilies. Further reading has revealed that Claude Shride is almost too vigorous, in that its genes tend to overrun others. This means that however it was pollinated, the most probably result will be a seedling almost exactly like Claude Shride (the lily, not the person).
Lilium x ‘Super Tsing’ – Open pollinated with other martagon type lilies. ‘Super Tsing’ is already a cross of Lilium martagon and Lilium tsingtauense. Thus it will produce a wider array of variation within the seed lot than anything else I offer here (except the L. davidii cross).
This message was edited Oct 16, 2009 1:03 PM
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