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O.k. so I need help, when do you dehead the Stella lilies, right now some of mine are in bloom, but when do I dehead them.....thanks

after the blooms fall off, cut that stem as far as you can

Thanks Ellie....I have been picking them off....nice hugh..

Drea,thanks for asking.Most of my blooms are gone now.Know what I am going to be doing the next 2 days.
Brownthunb,thanks for the answers.Do I do the same with other lillys?I have planted different ones in pots.I see stems & buds.So after the bloom finishes I do the same.This fall I'm planting these in the flower bed.

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Originally posted by jackierenette:
Drea,thanks for asking.Most of my blooms are gone now.Know what I am going to be doing the next 2 days.
Brownthunb,thanks for the answers.Do I do the same with other lillys?I have planted different ones in pots.I see stems & buds.So after the bloom finishes I do the same.This fall I'm planting these in the flower bed.

Your welcome. As for the other lilys,are they the bushy lilys like the stellas or are they the oriental lilys (bulbs).The answer would be yes to the bushy.

Hi Brownthumb.Yes they look like stellas,different colored.I bought some last year and last month I devided them into pots.Then planting in the flower bed in fall.Is that the right time or should I wait til early next spring?THANKS for all your advice.I can grow about anything but I dont know alot about any flowers-plants.Unless I ask or search on the web.LOL

Is there a reason your not planting them now?

So ellie, when I cut the stem back, will they bloom again this year......you know I had this happen last year and I didn't to it right, and I was cutting off the bulb again....so as soon as the flower falls off cut the stem, and then what about that bulb that comes back on it???/I do want them to bloom again...thank you...

ok so now when the flower falls off, cut it back...will they bloom again...remember this happen to me last year and I did it all wrong...it had the bulb on it.....so cut it before that bulb forms right??? and they will bloom again this year....

That is right drea. Although I don't get reblooms either. :-(

I've got lots of Stella D's and I get a huge flush in June, then not much of anything. I recently saw or read something...they said cut them down to the ground after the first flush and you'll get reblooming. I plan to try it on one. Couldn't hurt to try, right?

thanks for that info Belstone, I'll try that one too!

I only cut off day lily stems. My asian type lilies I leave the stems until they die then cut them which is usually in the fall. Those leaves are supplying the roots with nutrients so I don't cut any leaves during the growing/blooming season unless they get a disease.
Most of my day lilies have several buds per stem. I don't cut the stems until all the buds have bloomed. "If" they are rebloomers, then yes, they will bloom again but probably not as much as that first flush.

Certain lilies are rebloomers. I've never heard of cutting them back to rebloom. Landscapers use tens of thousands of them here and no one ever cuts them back, they just rebloom. Maybe cutting them back causes more blooms, I don't know. As far as daylilies go there is a classification known as "rebloomer". This is genetic--you can't trim a daylily and force it to rebloom. Certain weather conditions encourage reblooms--last year in my area we had some daylilies which had more blooms than in other years over an extended period.