On Wed, 04 May 2005 18:48:24 GMT, (~Roy~) wrote:

Question on growing water lillys from seeds. How and when do you treat
the bloom to get the seeds. Do you wait for it to be over its blooming
period and rthen pull it off and allow to dry or what? Whata medium
are they started in? Would those self expanding swellup type peat pots
work to start lilly seeds in? Yep I know its easier to grow other
plants from root cuttings, but I have lots of spare time to kill and
like to learn different things. The lillys I want to reproduce are
planted in my ponds natural bottom and are of the miniature variety
and I really do not want to dig em up and divide.

You do realize that the seed may not be anything like the mother plant
because the father plant is unknown? Saying that, I'm totally clueless
about growing lilies from seed. I tried to do a lotus like that once, not
only was it a big hassle to get it going it had the nerve to died the next
year. Plus I'm just not that patient to wait a couple years for flowers.
;-) ~ jan

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