Lilium scale production

Pacific Rim paige@hillkeep.ca
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:45:23 PDT
Dear all: Please chime in if you grow Lilium en masse or know how cells 
reproduce.

The Laird of Auchgourish wrote that scales of a Lilium bulb can produce new 
small bulbs without a piece of the bulb plate, outside tissue culture / 
micropropagation.

I would love to know how that happens. My goal is not to be right from the 
start but to learn.

Might the procedure involve burying the horns of a buffalo when the 
Steinerian moon is blue? Joke.

Iain, you mention "a few wee tricks," and when you are recovered from your 
surgery I hope that you will communicate those tricks to all of us.

Good luck with your operation.

Paige Woodward

> Can I please comment on Paige Woodward's posting ref Lilium scales 
> requiring material from the mother bulb's base plate otherwise bulbil 
> production except by means of micro prop is not possible. If I correctly 
> understand what Paige's view on this is, if not fulsome apologies, then I 
> would like to respectfully offer a correction.
>
> Following propagation experiments here involving in excess of 80 + 
> different botanical taxa bulbil production can be achieved from almost any 
> part of a lily bulb scale. A good example of this is e.g. with the new 
> North American taxon L. pyrophillum which has scales in two or three parts 
> and as recently as yesterday I potted up over 20 bulbils originating from 
> a single mother bulb whose scales were placed in damp vermiculite in late 
> autumn last year. In other cases where e.g. [a] Trumpet Asian species with 
> long narrow single scales bulbils can be produced from broken scales which 
> have no base plate tissue, and [b] the Asian Alpine L. lophophorum along 
> with our sp. nova L. montegena which I am frantically trying to bulk up by 
> means of both scaling as well as seeds. In the case of LL soulei and 
> bakerianum where some bulbs last summer and autumn showed signs of basal 
> rot the sections of the scales with rot were excised using a razor blade 
> more in hope than anything else however t
>
> hey proved their gratitude for remedial surgery by producing admittedly 
> just a few bulbils but better that then the soggy mess anticipated if left 
> to their own devices.
>
> There are a few wee tricks which I have been working on to enable the 
> above and while undoubtedly in need of much 'refinement' the methods and 
> the growing medium do seem to be settling down to providing at least a 
> rescue remedy but as Paige points out micro prop would probably be the 
> best means to aid mass production however the objectives here are 
> concerned with the maintenance of often rare botanical taxa rather than 
> production of commerical quantities of hybrids. If anyone wanted more info 
> along lines similar to that for the seed germination already provided feel 
> free to ask however as I am about to disappear for a back operation next 
> week it will need to wait until I get back to work at the end of May so 
> e-mail me then and I will try to send some info out, it hasn't been 
> properly written up yet but no doubt it will be one of the  'to do' jobs 
> when flat on my back.
>
> Iain
>
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