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Does any one have the lily attraction
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Posted by Sean_McKinney N. Ireland (My Page) on Wed, Jun 1, 05 at 16:40
For various reasons I certainly have one and possibly 3.
My original suspected Attraction did ok I think in the summer of 2003 and I moved it along with 2 other lilies into the wildlife pond. Spring 2004 they were all doing badly and the suspected attraction was producing curled up and malformed pads especially from one crown. I pulled all thre lilies out of the wildlife pond and I think I lost one of the other 2 although I cant remember what happened to the 3rd lily. The attraction went into a tank on its own and I bought 1 or 2 B&Q attractions just in case my origninal attraction didnt make it, however it did make it. Stupidly I didnt label the other attraction/s and cant remember where it/they is/are.
I suspect I might have put it/them in the fish pond because I have just pulled two rhyzomes of the correct size from the fishpond that have similar pads to the deformed pads that the original attraction is again putting up.
If you have attraction is this a characteristic of it?
Re the old attraction it is now a wee bit cramped but the root system and rhyzome look healthy.
This is the rhyzome and root system when it was removed from the wildlife pond 19/6/2004
The photo below was taken 18/8/2004 and shows the better pads that developed later in the year
The photo below was taken 16/4/2005
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RE: Does any one have the lily attraction
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RE: Does any one have the lily attraction
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I am wondering if that is what I have. I bought mine from B&Q I think in the dry boxes. It didn't come at all last year, but this year I have found a rhyzome floating around in the pond with a couple of very tiny leaves just coming up. I think it might be the one that didn't do anything last year and somehow has floated out of the pot.So I will wait and see.
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RE: Does any one have the lily attraction
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Alison, INSPECT the rhyzome for soft squidgy bits that smell sickly sweet, if you find any BURN IT, I think attraction is one of the species susceptable to crown rot. I will check that but if I dont correct myself I have remembered correctly. If you find nothing odd I would suggest repotting it in either John Innes No1 or A Bowers aquatic compost and bung it in a bucket of water so you can monitor it more easliy.
If your B&Q still has them B&Q had 5packs of black plastic storage bins on offer for £3.98 or something like that. They make excellent lily tanks for starting off. These are a semi flexible plastic unlike the standard brittle-plastic 5packs they do. The small trugs, gorillas, green or yellow double handled flexible 'buckets' are also good. |
RE: Does any one have the lily attraction
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Thanks I will inspect it and pot it up.
Alison |
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