Not sure if we have the same thing, but I have tiger lily/tigridium lily that I planted bulblets in a pot last year. During the fall they grew a bit of foliage & I brought them inside for the winter to let them grow. In the spring I planted them outside. This year I left them & they are now dormant. I am sure what you have outside will be dormant and seems quite reasonable that the one in the pot is rooted, mine in the pot rooted rather quickly, but didn't show any foliage for a while, but I don't remember just how long. They are really very easy, so don't worry.

Orientals do not multiply as fast as Asiatics. But they should form bulblets along the stalk - when you remove the old stalk are there ever any at the base? It's pretty easy to scale a lily bulb. I've done it. Bend the scale backwards and it should snap off. You need to make sure that you remove a part of the basal plate with each scale. The basal plate bit will be a slightly different colour (usually paler) than the scale. I put my scales in a bag with slightly damp vermiculite and left it in a warmish place for a couple of months. New bulblets had formed by that point and I carefully planted them into a pot and allowed them to grow in that for a couple of years (you can put them into the ground, but mark them well, and don't disturb the soil for a couple of years) You should be able to remove a few scaled from each mature bulb without damaging it. You can do this in the fall, just before the garden is put away for the winter, and allow the babies to grow inside over the winter, In the spring, plant them out. BP

I have a few varieties of bulbils/bulblets that I would like to exchange for different varieties. I would also like mature bulbs but I have no extras to trade so If you have any extra I would be interested for trading for daylilies, vines, sedums etc. Please email me if you are interested in a trade. Thanks, growjo

Did everybody enjoy this swap as much as I did? There wasn't much feedback. This was the first trades I ever took part in and it was a great introduction to trading. Except for the one package that looked as if the postman sat on it, everything arrived in fine shape and now I'm like the little boy who buried the dead bird in a shoebox -- I keep wanting to go dig them up and see if they're still there and what are they doing?! Thanks again, Kenneth, for initiating this swap and for all the time you spent on it. Thanks, traders, for the bulblets. Nell