Growing Lilium 1: planting times

» Ixia - planting times

I have pasted part of the article for you to read as this will explain it for you.

If the seeds are a bit old they may not be viable but it is worth planting them anyway.
Welcome to part 1 of this series, which is about Lilium.

Propagation of Liliums is quite easy as long as you understand the simple principles of growing seed.

There are two types of Lilium seed:

Epigeal (easy and quick)
Hypogeal (hard and slow).

"EPIGEAL" With some of the easy species you will get flowers in less than eighteen months and seeds will send up a leaf immediately after planting. Some specialists planted epigeal Lilium seed in late winter as it gives them more growth time before the coming season

"HYPOGEAL" Slow germinating seeds require a warm period of about three months to make them germinate, (summer). Then, they need a cool rest time, again, approximately three months (winter), followed by another warm period to start leaf production (spring). The perfect time to plant for Hypogeal germinators is around mid summer.

It's still a bit early yet for Lilium seed.
Hope this helps.
Nice to hear from you.

-- posted by Ixia