Ok, I know several board members were not overly fond of vivips. I however think if God had not created them it would have been a great genetic invention.
All summer long as I trim pads from lilies I grow out certain vivips that I need more lilies of those varieties. If I am careful and separate them I will put them into individual buckets to grow out.
When I am in a hurry though which is much of the time, I just cut them and throw them into 2 piles... vivips and non vivips. The non vivips go into the compost pile.
The vivips go into a kiddie swimming pool. There is no dirt, no soil just water and decaying leaves. It looks pretty yucky until the plants really start breaking down.
Over the winter, many of the vivips that had started growing turn into nice little tubers.
With the 90+ degree temps, I noticed flowers starting to bloom a few weeks ago. I took a pic early 2 days ago when there were a number of flowers up.
I pulled up about 10 lilies that were blooming this evening. I had to tear out numerous other small plants and throw them back into the pool.
I was going to pot them up in dixie cups but 4 of them had root systems so large that the roots would not fit into an 18 oz. dixie cup.
So if you like your lilies and you have some vivips, do yourself a favor and toss them somewhere to try and develop into something for you.
I use buckets and even a fish tank with a heater and lights to quickly develop many of mine but as you can easily see, the lazy man's way works too if you can be patient.
Tim
