This is a flat of seedlings, mostly from Steve Todd's (Ahead) Lily Auction offerings. They're from his tet Rose F. Kennedy lines crossed onto various parents, including some of Judy Davisson's best. Most of them were beginning to sprout in the refrigerator in mid-March. I used a greenhouse-grade potting mix for the lower 2/3 of the 3½" pots, topped with a coconut coir/perlite mixture. Because they were very nice crosses, and I didn't want the neighborhood cats, raccoons, crows or anything else bothering them, I built tray-top cages out of ½" hardware cloth. These are a little more elaborate than usual—I typically lay a flat sheet of ½" hardware cloth over the tray—but with the taller cage I get a little more growing time in before I have to ditch the cover. They're showing pretty good growth for three weeks. A couple of the pots contain crosses from other sellers and which hadn't sprouted in the fridge. They were a little slow to show, but every day I see new shoots. Pretty close to 100% germination now.
