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May 7, 2015 4:15 PM CST
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A lily bulb ideally should feel heavy and quite hard. Yours are soft because they are a bit dehydrated. This is of course stressful for the lily and it will probably perform a bit worse for this year, but on the other hand it is rather difficult to kill a lilly. It wants nothing more than to grow Smiling . An extremely stressed lily could skip blooming or it could even break down into several new 'babies', but death as such is rare. Because they are sensitive to drying out lily bulbs are usually stored in peat over the winter. They don't like to be out of the soil for long.

The outer scales are probably darkened a bit from the handling. Bulbs are lifted in Holland, graded for size and cleaned in preparation for export, so this will give a few bruises.

You don't mention anything about the bulbs having long sprouts? Very long sprouts would have indicated a bit more stress, so if in fact your bulbs have minimal sprouts or none at all, it could actually be reasonably healthy. Hard to know without actually having seen the bulbs, but in short I think they will be OK.

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