Lilies are planted with bulbs. Bulbs are sold more in autumn and spring, and the price is affordable. It's easy to grow and blossom. If you buy lily bulbs in autumn, they will blossom around the Spring Festival. If you buy lily bulbs in spring, they will blossom in summer. Lily is very beautiful when it is in full bloom, but compared with other flowers, the flowering period is a little short, and there is a feeling of endless after each bloom. Some flower friends plant or buy potted lilies before the Spring Festival. Can they bloom again after the flowers wither? It depends on how you raise it.
How to do after lily blossom
Normal maintenance of lilies can only bloom once a year, the flowering period is uncertain, which has a lot to do with when to plant, most of them bloom in winter and summer. However, if the lilies are properly maintained after withering, the bulbs can still bloom next year, so they can be maintained for a long time. How to raise lilies after blooming? First, cut off the residual flowers and the stems above, leaving three or four stems with healthy leaves. Reduce watering, ensure sufficient light, apply thin fertilizer frequently (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium balanced fertilizer or phosphorus and potassium fertilizer), and enter the breeding stage.
When the temperature drops in autumn, if it's potted, the lily leaves will gradually turn yellow and wither. Don't dig them out. Put them in the environment of about 10 degrees to keep the soil moist and keep them growing. When the temperature rises in spring, dig out the bulbs and replant them. Then they will blossom in summer. If it is planted on the ground, it will get frostbite when the temperature is relatively low in winter. When the leaves turn yellow in autumn, it can be dug out, wrapped with some straw hulls and other things, covered with plastic bags, and put in the refrigerator and freezer. When the temperature rises in spring, it can be planted. If the temperature is higher than zero in winter, there will be no frostbite, and don't dig it out, just let the field pass the winter, and spring will naturally germinate, grow and blossom.
Is there any way to make lilies bloom twice a year?
Yes, after the first flowering, fertilize it for a month or two, dig it out, pack it, store it in the refrigerator for a month or two, and then plant it again. Although the lily can bloom twice a year in this way, the second growth and flowering are not as good as the first because of the large loss of bulbs. And after the second flowering, the seed ball is basically abandoned, and it is difficult to bloom next year, so it has no conservation value.
So the general lily is step-by-step, so that a year to open a flower. This will not only ensure the quality of the next flowering, but also grow a small seed ball on the seed ball, which can be well maintained and the offspring will continue to grow. After the Lily blooms, it will take a long time to grow until next year. If many potted flower friends are too lazy to wait, they will lose them and buy new bulbs next year. If you have the conditions for planting, you can raise them. If you occasionally give them some water and fertilizer, they will germinate and blossom by themselves in the coming year, and they will reproduce more and more.