In a message dated 4/18/2011 9:24:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jerrydana5@aol.com writes:
I have some hybrid Lilacs and there are a couple of suckers growing up
about a foot away. Will those suckers, if they are transplanted, grow into
hybrid lilacs? Or regular lilacs? Or nothing? Jerry in southern Indiana.
Jerry
I don't remember seeing anyone give their opinion on this.
Lilies aren't grafted but rather propagated by separating the clumps
(suckers). And unless a mutation occurs the clumps will be as the parent. So yes,
they will also be hybrids.
The exception here might be: You said the suckers were a foot away. Lilly
clumps are usually adjacent to the mother plant. Could the hybrid, though
usually sterile, have produced seed and the seed sprouted a foot away? See if
there is an underground root connecting the two plants.
Does your hybrid Lilly bear bulbils? If so, that could explain the foot
separation and if it is the case it should also be a hybrid copy.
Jerry
(Also southern Indiana)
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