I think Mother Nature threw you a curve ball, which when you get caught up in that situation, have no choice but to grow thru it. When we do everything right based on our knowledge, experience and the assumption that average weather will occur, things will turn out pretty good. But in the last two years, the usual 6 week weather cycles/periods have been extreme. The 'cool, moist' cycles have been more like 'cold, wet' and 'warm/dry' cycles have become more like 'hot/arrid' cycles. The transition time frame between cycles is very extreme. And this plays havoc with lilies because they can't adjust their growth rate quickly enough in response to those quick, drastic changes, one way or the other. They don't know whether to speed up or slow down is one way to put it (tho technically not correct) which I know from personnal experience causes irregular growth. Especially, if I fertilized with time release fertilizer a little late and then it's followed by a dryer than average late Summer/Fall season, followed by a cold/wet-hot/dry up and down Spring.
I'm notorious for 'pushing' it to the limits, And, up till a couple years ago, I got away with it , with only occasion distortion and fasciation. But I think I've seen enough recently to where I really cut back on the fertilizer. This past summer, I didn't fertilize at all because the hot, dry weather held on too long, in my judgement.
So, in your case, Anthony, it's not that you over fertilized, necessarily, but that Mother Nature didn't cooperate. That's my opinion. One good thing is that warmer weather is coming and your plants will grow out of it. But there is a good lesson here still, and that is that too little fertilizer is far better that too much fertilizer in any adverse environment.
