When do lily seeds usually be sown and harvested? How long is the growth cycle? How do you plant it? What varieties do you have?

Lilium is a plant of the genus Lilium of Liliaceae, which is native to China and is a kind of ornamental, edible and medicinal plant. So when do its seeds usually be sown and harvested? How long is the growth cycle? How do you plant it? What varieties do you have? According to the data of Liliaceae, the lilies are large, white, funnel-shaped and solitary at the top of the stem. Capsule long ovoid, obtusely ribbed. Budding in early June, flowering in early July, blooming in mid-July, final flowering in late July, fruiting period from July to October.

When do lily seeds usually be sown and harvested?

Planting:

1. The suitable planting time is from August to September. Apply enough base fertilizer one month before planting and turn the soil deeply. Compost and plant ash can be used as base fertilizer. Planting should be deeper (generally the depth is 3-4 times the diameter of the bulb), in order to facilitate the rhizome to absorb nutrients. If planted too shallowly in the north, it is vulnerable to freezing damage in winter, and will affect the growth of roots and bulbs. Weeding during the growth period should not be ploughed in order to avoid damage to the rhizome. If possible, you can sprinkle some sawdust on the planting ground to cover the soil. In this way, it can not only prevent the growth of weeds, but also preserve soil moisture and reduce soil moisture to facilitate the development of bulbs.

2. Pot planting should be carried out from September to October. The cultivated soil should be mixed with rotten leaf soil, sandy soil and garden soil at the ratio of 1:1:1, and the basin bottom should be fully mature compost and a small amount of bone powder as base fertilizer. The planting depth is generally about 2-3 times the diameter of the bulb. Lily does not have a high demand for fertilizer, which is usually applied at the beginning of spring growth and the early stage of flowering.

Harvest:

1. The underground bulbs of edible lilies can be harvested all year round. But the edible flavor and commodity value vary with the harvest time. Generally in October, after the stem withered, after a period of cooling process, before and after the Beginning of Winter harvest, the sugar content of the lily bulb increased rapidly.

2. The lily bulb is in the field, and after overwintering, the products harvested from March to April of the following year also have good commercial quality. Lily bulbs can also be harvested for special needs in the growing season.

3. Under normal circumstances, farmers are not willing to harvest lily bulb products in the lily growing season. Lily bulb products are harvested in late autumn, usually from late October to mid-late November.

What are the varieties of lilies?

There are about 120 species of lily, 46 species and 18 varieties are distributed in China, of which 36 species and 15 varieties are endemic. There are 40-50 species used for horticultural breeding and cultivation, and only about 20 species are used for commercial production, including musk lily, hairy lily, Curly Dan, Shandan, Tianxiang lily, medicinal lily, Hubei lily, Wang lily, white lily, Sichuan lily, Qingdao lily, Wudao lily, Japanese lily, Madona lily, Maltese Gong lily.