keithp2012 said:It seems nobody can answer my true question.If the seeds are hybrids and I'm being told about same kind of lily group germination that isn't helping.
Please realize the hybrids are not necessarily between lily groups, and in fact are usually within a single lily group. Perhaps this is where the confusion is emanating from. You never said you were
only looking for the former, and it certainly wasn't clear from your post.
So now I am assuming you only mean hybrids of
different lily groups. Your were being told about
individual lily groups because that is what we know, and it wasn't clear that you didn't care about that. However, there are no steadfast rules when crossing between lily groups. All we have is the so called "rules" that generally govern within groups to go by, to help you guess what might happen in a cross. So what has been said is very relevant. If such crosses are possible to begin with, things can go either way, and sometimes even in between. It does
seem that more often than not, when crossing immediate epigeal lilies with delayed hypogeal, the offspring will favor the immediate epigeal growth pattern.
But this is only an observation by hybridizers. I don't think there is any way to know before hand. That's all I can tell you, and I don't know if being male or female in the cross makes a difference. Maybe someone else knows more?
