My First Pic Are Scales From Seperating My Lilies This Fall. After getting little Bulblets Started In Ziploc Bags I Planted The Biggest In A $1.25 Plastic Shoe Box. The Rest (Around 144). I Thought About Planting In Paper Egg Cartons Both Would fit In Fridge Good. When Spring Comes I Could Just Cut The Carton Into Pieces To Be Planted.
Second Pic Are Scales From 8 Mixed Asiatics, 3 Corsage, And 3 Purple Prince Orienpet Bulbs I Received A Few Days Ago. They Are Just Starting To Develope. Third Pic Are Scales From 16 Mixed Oriental (In Tobacco Bag), 10 Mixed Tribal Kiss/Mapira, And 3 Forever Linda Bulbs. I Still Have 30 Oriental, 18 Asiatic, 16 Orienpet, 10 Fusion, And 3 Tiger Lilies On The Way I'll Be Getting A Few Scales From. I Plan On Making Rows Of Them In The Veggie Garden And Let Them Grow Until Needed Else Where Or Given To Some One. 🙂

Sounds like a good plan. You'll have plenty lots to play with!

But I don't think the egg carton will decompose fast enough to be planting the individual cups, if that is your intention. Stark layers in the soil profile is never a good thing, and it would hinder the growth. If it were me, I would remove the lilies entirely from the carton. Yes, there will be more transplant trauma, but in the end it will be better.

I figure cutting a whole in bottom of each Egg cell before planting will let the roots grow on into the ground. I already put a couple in water and set aside didn't take um long to disintegrate.

Well then, you know more than me! It was smart to try that out, and I don't see any problem then.

Rick I understand what ya mean. If they didn't dissolve pretty quick or the roots couldn't grow through they couldn't grow. Why I say make a hole in um before planting. I plan on seeing zinnia seeds in some to that way I can cut them up and plug them in all around the yard.

Are these supposed to be growing big long roots and leaves already? I just broke them from the bulbs Nov. 19th.

I shipped a box of bulbs and scales from Alaska to Virginia. My son just dug little trenches in a raised bed and laid them out and covered them. I see tiny leaves coming already. I won't know what is who until they bloom then I can figure who is short and who is tall and rearrange this fall. Pretty exciting. Box with soil was about 8x10x12" lined with a garbage bag and filled with dirt - just enough to keep the parts and pieces a little seperate

From Lorn Odegard (Roosterlorn on NGA):
Asiatic scale clones carry the seasonal cycle of the mother bulb in memory, so clones grown from 'summer or fall' mother bulbs will require a chill cycle. Trumpets (for sure) and (I think) most OT's do not require a chill cycle.

Stella, you shipped a box of soil from Alaska to Virginia? That's really not a good idea. We talk about how bad it is to ship invasive plants, or accidentally bring in insects and disease; this is no different. You may have infected your Virginia soil with something innocuous in Alaska, but bad in the Virginia climate. Next time, packing your live materials in relatively inert products like wood shavings, vermiculite or straight peat is a thousand times more ecologically sound.

I am so sorry. Didn't think of that. The soil was only around the roots, the soil I put in the box was bagged soil. It is confined to one raised bed. I will take my lilies out and pour bleach on the bed.

Bleaching will kill everything in the soil if you want to apply enough to kill what you brought in.It will change the pH drastically and change what soil flora might repopulate soil. That's not a good idea, either. Completely sterilizing an outside soil severely upsets the natural soil balance, and whatever soil flora (good or bad) will rush in afterwards to fill the void where soil life was extinguished. More often, it's the bad things that will proliferate exponentially in the beginning and it might take more than a year for the soil ecosystem to re-balance itself. Meanwhile, you would likely find anomalies with how things grow that you won't be able to fix because no one knows what is actually happening in the soil. In my opinion, I think the best thing to do now is just let it be, and it is more likely that the natural soil flora will compete aggressively with whatever you brought in. No one can be sure, though.

I didn't mean to scare you too much about introducing foreign soil and all that comes with it. It's kinda like planting any non-native tree, vegetable or flower in your garden. In actuality, there is rarely a problem. But there is always the possibility, and multiplied by, say, 100, because there is at least a hundred different species of soil flora in a handful of soil. We all just need to be cognizant of our impacts, and I brought the subject up for the benefit of anyone who reads this, not just you, Stella.