Reproduction of lilies: TOP 9 best ways

Lily is a luxurious bulbous perennial loved by many gardeners. The easiest way to plant lilies is to plant a bulb from a flower shop in the fall. Bulbs are now very expensive and you have to fork out to plant enough. All lovers of this flower will be interested in the information that the reproduction of lilies is possible in several ways, each of which can be really implemented.

Method for breeding lilies by dividing the bush

Suitable for beginners, as it is very easy and affordable. About once every three to four seasons, several small bulbs form in the bulbous nest. Carefully count the number of stems, the same number of bulbs formed. In the fall or late summer, carefully pick up a lily bush with a pitchfork and divide it into several individual bulbs. Drop each one in a prearranged location. If you manage not to damage the bulbs, then they will bloom next summer.
The method of dividing the bush is not suitable for every variety of lilies, because, for example, Tubular and Oriental hybrids either do not produce small bulbs, or there are very few of them.

Division with the help of children

This method of reproduction of lilies is similar to dividing a bush, but differs in that you need to divide the bulbs located on the underground parts of the stems. Also, in the fall, a bush is carefully dug up and examined for the presence of small bulbs, each of which can be planted as an independent plant. Interestingly, dozens of these bulbs can be produced in Asian hybrid lilies. They are not yet quite strong to bloom next summer, but in a year - for sure!
The baby bulbs must also be separated from the main stem and planted in a separately prepared bed (no deeper than 3 cm), well covered from the winter cold with autumn leaves (straw is also suitable). Such bulbs will bloom after a year, and all this time it accumulates strength and develops. The next fall, already grown onions are planted in a columbarium, where in the next season the lilies will delight with lush flowers.
It is important to know what to do if small buds have formed. They must be removed, then all the food will go to the bulb and root system. Only then will the bulbs develop properly.
Most likely, beginners will have a question: what to do with the onion mother? She will not suffer at all and will safely give flowers more than once, therefore, after the children are separated, she is settled in a columbarium or other special place.
This method is suitable for Canadian, Golden, Long-flowered, Tiger, Leopard varieties.

Propagation of lilies by bulbs

In some varieties of lilies (tubular, Asian hybrid, Tiger, Sargent, etc.), bulbs are formed inside the outer stem. These baby bulbs are often called "air bulbs" (bulbs). In the wild, these varieties of lilies have formed air bulbs, fall down and take root safely. One plant can give up to 100 bulbs. They bloom only in the 3rd year, and adult flowering occurs only in the 4th year.

The additional birth of bulbs (for Long-flowered, Saffron, Tunbkrga, Snow-white, etc.) is facilitated by a simple cut of the buds with the stems bending to the soil. With the help of this procedure for the active formation of children, the plant becomes stronger.
Basically, "air bulbs" fall to the ground two to three weeks after the flowering of the plant, and this moment should not be missed. As soon as you saw that small roots have formed on the children, it means that they are ripe, and this is a signal to collect them. The diameter of the children is 3-8 mm. At the base of each sheet, you will find a couple of children. For their further growing, it is necessary to soak for two hours in a Fundazol solution and plant it shallowly on a special bed about 0.1 m from each other.
In late autumn, mulch on plantings with straw or dry leaves (peat is also suitable). In the spring, remove all this, water and weed the planting, if necessary.
In the first spring, only leaves and a barely expressed stalk will appear, the bulb will grow up to 1.2 cm. And in the fall they are already planted in a permanent place.
In the second spring, a pronounced stem with leaves will appear, and the plant can bring its own bulbs.
Flowers will appear in the 3rd summer, when the bulbs grow up to 3 cm, and the plant height is up to half a meter.
From the 4th summer, the plant becomes fully developed with a large bulbous system.

Division with stem cuttings

This is a way of quick reproduction of lilies. In spring, among the stalks of lilies, there will definitely be young shoots (10-15 centimeters high), and they must be carefully separated. Find Kornevin, treat the shoots with it and plant in a large container with drainage and feed. earth. If the spring is warm, then you can plant it directly into the open ground by adding sand to the hole.
A little secret: if you cut the lower part of the cuttings before planting, then much more babies will be born!
Next, water the planted shoots and cover each with a plastic bottle: this greenhouse option will promote faster rooting. Water your planting regularly and small bulbs will form in a couple of weeks. Remove the plastic, and spud the shoots (there will be even more bulbs!)
In August or September, gently separate the bulbs and plant them separately to grow. Bloom next season or two.

Reproduction of lilies through flower shoots

It turns out that using a flower shoot when the plant fades, you can also propagate a lily. Remember this if you are presented with a bouquet of lilies for the holiday!
So, you need to take a flower shoot and in a shaded place dig a small hole in the size of the seedling. Loosen the ground a little beforehand. Place the seedlings horizontally in the hole and sprinkle with earth. It is better to pour all this not with ordinary water, but with a stimulant (Epin, Zircon, etc.). Next, cover the landing with polyethylene with small arcs. Babies will appear after 2 months. By winter, you need to mulch with sawdust (humus or peat).
In this way, the lily is multiplied at home, taking the appropriate planting boxes. Before winter, the landing should be placed in a room at 14-17 degrees Celsius. In spring, the bulbs need to be transferred to open soil or into a planting container on the balcony and grow.

Reproduction of lilies by shoots: photo

Reproduction of lilies by leaves

An even more amazing way of dividing this flower is with leaves. Thus, you can increase the Snow White, Tiger, Regale, Long-flowered and other varieties.
If your neighbors in the garden have such varieties, then with their help you can get (ask during budding) outer leaves at the base. Deepen them into the soil at half the height at a slope. For disembarkation, it is better to use a box filled with airy soil (5-6 cm) and moistened sand (2-4 cm) with drainage holes. After planting, we cover the box with polyethylene, which we raise daily and remove the droplets of moisture.
Babies appear in about 30-40 days, and then we remove the polyethylene completely. In winter, we place the box in a room with a cool temperature or on a garden plot, covering the planting with fallen autumn leaves. In spring or autumn, they are planted in a columbarium.

Reproduction of lilies by scales

This is a popular method of breeding lilies among gardeners, as it allows you to multiply at any time of the year, even in winter, while maintaining the main bulb.
Babies are obtained from the outer scales of an onion mother. For this purpose, up to a third of the scales are taken from the bulb without prejudice to it, despite the fact that most of the bulbs are given by the outer scales (5-7 pieces).
Children with scales appear in 1 season, but they will bloom only after two or three.
This is a universal method and will work for all varieties. You can buy the rarest varieties in the store, and not necessarily a lot, because a dozen of the most valuable scales are extracted from the 1st onion, and they, in turn, will give several onions.

Now let's talk directly about the germination of scales. First, they are separated from the bulb. This is not difficult to do. Then you need a plastic container, and polyethylene will do. a package where we make holes and fill with a loose substance (from sphagnum moss, coconut substrate, vermiculite, peat or ordinary peat mixture). Place the scales there and moisturize. We put the tied polyethylene or a closed container (with holes for air) in a warm place. After about 30 days, the scales form tiny onions with tiny roots. And after 45-60 days they are planted in separate pots. Let's say you started dividing with scales in the spring. This means that by the fall, small onions can already be planted in open ground. In this scenario, flowering will occur in about 1-2 years.
Basically, flower growers carry out division with scales in the fall, because at this time, flowers are dug up in order to transplant to another place or plant, and maybe for protection from the winter cold.
Spring division by scales is carried out in the same way as autumn, only the bulbs that have appeared are sent to a cool place (+ 17-18 degrees).

Reproduction of lilies by scales: photo

Lily propagation by seeds

The method of propagation of lilies by seeds is suitable exclusively for species of lilies, in which the seedlings repeat the main parental trait. This is not acceptable for hybrid varieties.
The seed method of dividing is very laborious and rather complicated. It is mainly used by breeders to develop new varieties of lilies. The advantage of this method is that it can be used to breed a huge number of plants with properties that are most suitable for your climatic zone.
The downside is that many varieties (Long-flowered, Canadian, Luxurious, Special, etc.) require artificial pollination to obtain viable seeds.
And the Tibetan, Daurian, Drooping, Monochromatic, Saffron and others do not require artificial pollination. So they will give full seeds.
There are 2 types of lily seeds, differing in the method of germination: Aboveground (in such lilies, the cotyledon quickly crawls to the surface of the soil) and Underground (the cotyledon leaf sits in the ground, and later the real one comes out).
A few secrets of the seed propagation method of lilies:
- Without waiting for the opening of the seed box, start collecting them when brown;
- If there are a lot of seeds, then sow them all at once into the prepared soil. If there are few seeds, then it is better - into the planting container with a further dive into the pots (following the example of ordinary seedlings). The period before flowering is 5-7 years.
Recommendations for the care of seedlings are the most common - watering / moistening plus feeding plus weeding.

Lily: propagation by bulbs

This method of reproduction of lilies is quite rare, it is carried out in the days of spring. They take a large onion and cut out the bottom of it. Next, the onion is planted so that its top is at the bottom, and the cut part is on top. The bulb is watered throughout the summer season, and insulated in winter.
By the spring, small bulbs are formed, they are planted and grown. The mother onion eventually dies, then there are many children, much more than with the scaly method of division.
As you can see from this article, there are a lot of methods for dividing lilies, and any inexperienced florist can easily choose the most suitable one for himself and decorate his site with little effort with minimal financial investment.