The scales of the Lilium longiflorum cv. Georgia were propagated in several different media and temperatures to establish a method of useful scale propagation of Lilium in nutrient solution.
The rate of bulblet formation and numbers did not show significant correlation among the two methods of nutrient solution and soil propagations, kinds of nutrient solution, and temperatures. But the size of bulblets in nutrient solution propagation was one and a half times larger than that in soil propagation, and 26℃ treatment in the nutrient solution propagation caused better formation than 16℃ did.
The rate of leaf emergence in the soil propagation was above 93 percent, while that in the nutrient solution propagation was about 50 percent. More leaves emerrgence in the order of 16℃, 21℃ and 26℃ conditions in the nutrient solution propagation.
The rate of rooting after 30 days of scale propagation in the nutrient solution (nonmedium) did not have any different values between the two propagation methods. However, the rooting rate after 30 days of nutrient solution propagation in the peatmoss was ranged 30-96%, much lower than that in the soil propagation which was 100%. Similar results were observed in the length of root.
Weight of parent scale had negatively significant correlation with the size of bulblet in the soil propagation, but positive values in the nutrient solution propagation.
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