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Oct 12, 2020 8:51 AM CST
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Name: Alice
Fort Worth (Zone 8a)
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I'll have to find the package to see what kind of tropical lily I have, but they resemble star gazers.

and one has some strange offsets on the stem. I really love the blooms on these and would like to successfully propagate.

Here's a link to the stargazers page, it does mentions offsets. Oriental Lily (Lilium 'Star Gazer')

And this is what my plant is doing.
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Oct 12, 2020 11:44 AM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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Those are bulbils. After the stems yellow and die, you can harvest the bulbils and plant them. It will take 2 - 3 years for them to grow large enough to bloom.
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Oct 12, 2020 12:31 PM CST
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Just so you know liliums are not tropical plants. It would help if we could see a photo of the blooms. Maybe next year? Bulbils sometimes appear on lilies that don't normally produce them unless the plant is stressed in some way.
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Oct 12, 2020 8:26 PM CST
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Name: Alice
Fort Worth (Zone 8a)
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Thank you @pardalinum and @DaisyI
I was in a hurry this morning, to not forget to post that. This is the lily species, not sure if the same plant, I have several growing in pots. I have terrible luck with lilies in the ground here. Still haven't found the package they came in. there were 2 varieties in the pack, these are the variety to live and bloom a second year. I think I did put them in the greenhouse last winter.

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Oct 12, 2020 8:39 PM CST
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It does look Star Gazer-ish but lacks the green nectary furrows and the white edge may be a little too narrow. But it does appear to be in the same division as Star Gazer: DIV. VII Oriental lilies.

Don't force the bulbils off; it may take some time before the stem dies back and they loosen up. I give my bulbils a gentle wiggle to determine if they are ready for removal. Then there are those that drop off with a touch and blend in with the soil making them hard to find. This usually happens with some of my Asiatic lilies. Frustrating!
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Oct 12, 2020 8:54 PM CST
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Name: Alice
Fort Worth (Zone 8a)
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All my orange asiatic lilies have died. They were gorgeous in 2013, and gradually have disappeared, one bloomed in 2019, none this year. They were in the ground and I suspect too much water and or crowding from my John Fanick Phlox choked them out.
The bulbs fell apart on several, I thought maybe, like cloves of garlic, the petals of the bulbs would sprout and I think I potted some but nothing resembling a lily appeared.

When the bulbils are ready to drop, what kind of environment will they require?
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Oct 12, 2020 9:44 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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I just plant them back by the parent
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Oct 12, 2020 10:04 PM CST
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Name: Alice
Fort Worth (Zone 8a)
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ok. Thank you. I think the parent is going to get a bigger pot.
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Oct 13, 2020 11:34 AM CST
Name: Daisy I
Reno, Nv (Zone 6b)
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If your soil is alkaline, you won't be able to grow lilies in the ground.
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Oct 13, 2020 12:20 PM CST
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Name: Alice
Fort Worth (Zone 8a)
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Thank you for the explanation. there is limestone under my house.
my soil is alkaline. I managed a few years with the orange asian lilies, and I got like one year on a stargazer years ago.

I can grow spider lilies like crazy, and crinum lilies multiply wildly. So do Amaryllis. (except I think crinums crowded them.)
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Oct 14, 2020 6:52 PM CST
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Besides the bulbils where the leaves meet the stem, you also have stem bulblets near the soil, lower on the stem. Treat them the same.
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