Re: [APD] blooming lilies

["Eli Moss" <mossy173 at gmail_com>]

Odd, my plant has several pads and has never flowered.  What is your light
schedule?  Maybe that has something to do with it.

Eli


On 9/27/06, Pete <peteal at sympatico_ca> wrote:
>
>
> >Does anybody know anything about getting a dwarf lily to flower?  I've
> heard
> >of it happening, but my little plant has been flourishing for years and
> has
> >never once produced a flower.
> >Eli
>
> Not sure if you have the same ones I have (there's so many different ones)
> but if you do, I find to get them to bloom you need to let them have 3-4
> surface leaves or pads.
> After they have some lily pads out, in about a month you'll have a flower
> coming up.  After that as long as they have some pads going (all new leaves
> form pads if they have one already going) it flowers continuously.  On a
> side note, I also have a DIY CO2 injection going and MH lighting, but other
> than that no special care.   I don't find light being blocked by the pads to
> be much of a problem.  As the pads are high, light gets under them better
> than big leaves that are low and really shade the area.  Also nice if you
> have shrimps as they like standing? on the bottom of them upsidedown, looks
> funny ;)
>
> Lily before the pads (circled), no flowers will come
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-2/1142169/before_yearly_cleanupsm.jpg
>
> Lily flowering with pads.
> http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2006-2/1142169/flowersidesmallp.jpg
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