Lilium Cultivars and Flowering Behavior

Flowering behavior and flowering response of different Lilium genotypes was carried out during year 2018 at Division of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture SKUAST- K Shalimar. 15 cultivars including Navona , Malesco, Litouwen, Black Out, Revenna, Pink Palace, Tiber, Conca-D, Nello, Yellow Diamond, Tresor, Rialto, Courier, Cobra, and were evaluated on the basis of floral biology and flowering behavior. The outcome of the results revealed those maximum days to bud appearance after planting 44.48 days was recorded with cultivar Tiber where as minimum days 40.55 resulted with cultivar Black Out. Highest values for Bud diameter at maturity 26.59 mm was observed with cultivar Black Out and lowest values 18.87 mm with cultivar Navona. Bud length ranged 5.30 cm to 9.08 cm with cultivars Navona and Black Out, respectively. Number of florets per spike ranged minimum 2.36 to maximum 6.10 with cultivar Navano and Blackout respectively. Similar trend was followed for minimum to maximum values for floret diameter, inflorescence length and inflorescence diameter.