Yes I have, Mary Stella. They generally take as long as a seed to get to bloom size.

Della, while weeding/repotting/re-labelling my Lilies these days, I found the tag that says the L. candidum seeds that produced my plants came from Rick (DG's time) - does that make Leftfoot your babies grandfather?

I wish you the same luck I had: for me, they bloomed on the second year!

Wouldn't mind being a Granddad ....

Rick, two years ago I removed a few scales from my L. candidum, to reproduce those gorgeous bulbs (I obtained some 6 new Lilies), but I also sowed some OP seed (also obtained some 6 or 7 new Lilies) and keep my fingers crossed for them to bloom within the next few months. I love my L.c. - thank you so much for letting me have them!

But I also have bad news; my white flowered L. martagon, that I also obtained from your seeds, was killed by ..... my ignorance. Last week I emptied the pot to check on the bulbs, since they did not come up the previous year, only to find out that the soil I used was one solid brick and the bubs were .... gone to Lily heaven

Last season I lost all my Oriental hyb. lilies to rodents - some had mosaic virus and others were eaten completely, including the bulb.

Today I emptied a large pot, originally planted with 5 bulbs (sold as 'red asiatic'). I call it my ..... Black Out (it's not B.O., but very similar). It is amazing how much it reproduced in only 3 years: some 14 blooming size bulbs and many, many in all the smaller sizes - I will have good material to trade for other Lilies!

Ooohh, Lefty's definitely the granddad!

Bummer about the loses with lilies, Ursula. I'm hoping for a kind season here this summer in the Southern Hemisphere - and an end to your drought!

Oh, Rick, I forgot to mention, I have dozens of first little michiganense leaves popping up now.

Sorry you lost so many lilies, Ursula. Especially as I know how much you love them and how difficult they are to obtain for you .
I do hope you will be able to replace many of them.

I think martagons are much harder to grow in pots because they like cool soil, more so than other lilies. That you even grew from seed to bloom in your climate, Ursula, is an great achievement. Over the years, I have had too many losses to spend time lamenting. so keep focused on the future and your successes.

Just arrived! I know what I will be doing tomorrow morning.

I love Morden Butterfly and I am sure I have said that before so I know I am repeating myself. Getting three bulbs is the way to go with this one!

Much too wet to plant anything here, hopefully later in the week it will dry out a bit. What a wet, wet September.

Can never have too much Morden Butterfly. There are a handful of asiatics I wouldn't give up for anything, and that's one of them!

Morden Butterfly multiplies so you can have more bulbs around the gardens. That is my method of preservation just in case any lily doesn't like where I planted it (I get a lot of that here).

It is pretty wet here as well. Very much a wet month. Tired of the rain already. I'm quite excited to see these next year!

Has anyone on here grown 'striptease' at all? Or 'FF2000'? Tracey, I know you love 'FF88' is it a slow one to divide?

I have Striptease. I held off buying it because I hated the name

Ff88 is one I have used in hybridizing. I think it maybe more than a diploid, based on what pollen has worked on it, but I have nothing concrete to back it up. Maybe a triploid. In any case, it's a keeper. B/c orientation and an array of colors that blend into each other beautifully.

I haven't had it multiply at all. But it hasn't disappeared either, so that's good.

A couple bulbs of 'mona lisa' that is going to be sent to a friend

They are so much more beautiful when the come out of the ground versus storage/shipping! And more true to what they really should look like, too.

And most of the time, the color or colors of a freshly dug bulb can tell you a lot about the ancestry, too. For instance, I can tell whether a Trumpet is true Div. VI, whether registered or not, if there is some Oriental blood present ---and there's quite a few that do!

Popping in here with a few photos of seedlings from Della's seeds. I started these early in 2015.
L. leichtlinii x Strawberry and Cream, two seedlings bloomed this summer:



These look much like my seedlings from Citronella x Latvia.

This is Sweet Surrender x Tiny Padhye:



Coming next year, I hope, Sweet Surrender x Budderlord! Stay tuned!

pardalinum said:L. leichtlinii x Strawberry and Cream, two seedlings bloomed this summer:

Interesting that the petals and sepal are so differently held and shaped, yet neither of the parents show this quality. Perhaps it only because they are maiden flowers.

Sweet Surrender x Butterlord sounds very intriguing!

This is my seedling from Citronella x Latvia. I culled all other seedlings from this cross. It took several years for the petals to settle down and originally looked similar to Della's seedlings. I'll evaluate her seedling for at least two more years.