jongkolnee has sprouted. Sean any help you can give me on growing?

[Vickie]

[tinkster]

i looked up a picture of the lilly and she sure is pretty!  Be anxious to see how you do with her.  Good luck

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[Sean]

Hi Vickie,

I have this one as well and have never had much luck with it. It is a heavy feeder and a very reluctant bloomer. If you ever see blooms you will be very lucky but it is profuse in it's tuber production. You will be able to share it with many people in a couple years.
For now, just do my Dixie Cup method and place it outdoors with Joyce's soil mix in as large of a container as you can muster when planting out permits.

Cheers,
Sean

[Joyce]

Too bad you don't have a mud pond, or do you?
I betcha it would do awesome in a mud pond.

I am tempted to try it. 

Found on eBay, right?

And is it truly double, no reproductive parts of the flower?

If that sprout were mine, I'd take it out of the baggie (no nutrition in there) and gently plant it into some good old compost/topsoil mix using my recipe, in a 12" wide hole-less pot.
Plant it just enough to get it stuck in the soil, then I'd gently place a couple small flat rocks around the top of the tuber to keep it in place. I know it's tiny and hard to do, but I did this with the nearly microscopic Nymphaea pygmaea sprouts. Cuz when they floated for too long, they withered away or disappear (something ate them?). Then I'd put it in full sun, about 18" deep, perhaps putting the pot over a reptile heating pad to keep the water uniformly warm. I use the reptile heating pads when starting a lot of seeds, cuz they don't get too hot (found a load of 'em at a yardsale, all for $20).

Here's a link to one online, so you know what I'm talking about. http://lllreptile.com/store/catalog/reptile-supplies/heat-pads-heat-panels-heat-cable-and-rocks/

[Vickie]

It is in an aquarium that is 90* and in a west window. Plus a light. I was thinking the same thing put it in dirt. There are no fish or snails in this aquarium so they will not eat it, but I could still get leaf melt. I have bought a thermoplanter and plan on puting some of my aussies and this one in it in little cups of dirt then put cups in dirt and put into pond later. I cannot put lilies out here until at least the middle of june. I am fighting a cool zone here. I am hoping the thermoplanter will help me jump start them so I can repot them later.
Sean, so it tubers well.  I think I might keep it  in small pot just in case so it will tuber well.
Joyce no I have no mud bottom ponds. I would losse these tubers if I tried that. As it is I might grow them in a tubs to keep an eye on them. But that is not until June. This is an experiment.

[Joyce]

Vickie I saw what you posted at Koiphen.
I would be VERY careful about manure.
I use composted manure...and since it's composted, it can not burn your plant with too rich nutrients.
I wouldn't want to burn that little sprout! 

I think you're even a bit colder than us out here on the eastern most tip of LI, where we have zone 7b/8a winters.
Although this winter was a b!tch with all the snow. Quite a few shrub and perennial fatalities out there.  :'(
And horrendous deer damage. 

[Vickie]

I have rabbit manure. But I only cast it out on dirt and till it in then plants lily tubers later in the dirt. Rabbit does not burn as bad as cow.

[Joyce]

We have a rabbit too, and use his manure on everything.
The orchids esepcially love it mixed into orchid chips. 

[Vickie]

[Joyce]

  

[jw]

Hi Joyce, You mentioned you have a recipe for planting tubers? Is that recipe somewhere on this site? I am going to be re-potting my water lilies and was going to use part compost and peat moss and cover the top with tiny rocks so it stays put. I will put landscape cloth in the pot so the stuff can't leak out of the pot holes. Does this sound like a plan or do you have any ideas? Or does anyone else also. Much info appreciated as I want them to grow up big and strong.
Thanks,
           janice

[Vickie]

[Joyce]

YAY Vickie!     

jw, sorry, missed your post.
Will post on a new topic so I don't hijack this topic.

[Vickie]

[Joyce]

WOW...looking GREAT and growing FAST! 

[Vickie]

Yes so far so good. Now I am hoping we have a hot summer.