Walmart Plant Bulbs (Dwarf Lilly)

[XanAvaloni]

tigers, they have to be packed/shipped absolutely dry or they will rot. So when you put them in the tank they take some time to rehydrate, after which they will sink. I'm going on a year now with my one lily bulb that "took" and am quite happy with it. Nice pink/orange leaves (some green/yellow) and they just started shooting up more top-leaf stems a couple of weeks ago.

Trickiest thing about them is to get them just far enough into the substrate, or held down with something to keep it in contact, while not actually burying it. They have to sit just on top of the bottom, as it were , not within it.

come to think of it I have to run by WM sometime soon to get some sand for the new tank. May stop and pick up another one of those lily packs. I want this tank to be as "red" as possible and those are about the cheapest of the red plants you can get.

 

[Davy]

wow, i never heard of people having a lot of luck with those bulbs. i may have to look into some of em!

 

[Somervell]

I had two lots of them turn into a rotten, smelly mess. I fished them out and they smelled too bad to send back. I am really glad that someone has had such great luck with them. I might be inspired to try again.

 

[quincieadams]

serjuanca888:

I have had a few of these lily’s in my tank before I took it down that were doing good so i didn't just want to trash them. I decided to give them a try in our 80 gallon pond. Didn’t see much of them until about a year later lol it produced the lily’s only they were like 4 times bigger. Not sure if anyone else has tried them in a pond but i can say it sure did extremely well. Guess we'll see how it does this year.