Tip: It's always better to have too little moisture in the bag than too much. In fact, scales will form bulblets in a bag of peat moss without any extra moisture added. Small ones, but bulblets nonetheless. We only add a little bit of moisture to extend the life of the mother scale a little longer and larger baby bulblets are the result of that. What I do is make up a larger batch of media in large bowl and then mist the surface and roll that in, repeating a couple times. The mix should feel slightly cool to your hand, but not stick. Then I bag it up in 1 gallon size freezer bags, seal them and let them lay on the countertop a couple days. If there's any condensation at all, I prop the bags vertical and keep them open another couple days. Once you get too much moisture in a bag of media, it's not so easy to get out. And, even more difficult, when you've got a bag loaded with scales. So go sparingly with the mist when you first add it.
The Fall season is my favorite time of year to scale. It works out perfectly to the four season cycle with lilies and it's a great way to create extra safety backups in case something happens to your original. Keep in mind, though, that not all cultivars develop scale bulblets at the same rate, both from a time period standpoint and a bulblet quantity standpoint. We'll be talking more about that during the off season for sure
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