The Effect of the size of the bulbs and the type of fertilizer In vegetative growth and the number of flowers of Lilium longiflorum Thunb

Abstract

Due to the importance of Lilium longiflorum Thunb plant as a dicorating plant which produces flowering bulbs with beautiful colors and fragrant aromatic aroma, and spread in America, Europe and Japan as flowering plants and flowering flowers. In addition to its cultivation in the governorates of Syria (Hama - Damascus – Lattakia). This research is acheived  to study or( This study  is done to show )  the effect of the type of fertilizer and the size of the bulbs grown on the vegetative growth and the number of flowers of the lily plant under the conditions of the city of Hama, The experiment was designed according to the dissimilar sectors, the main factor was the quality of the fertilizer (5) (sheepskin manuare, poultry manure, Metallic balanced, Metallic high phosphorus, (Without fertilization), and the dissociating agent  is the size of the bulbs and their number / 2 / Large bulbs have circumference (21-25 cm), and small bulb have circumference (17-20 cm.(The following shows.  The results showed: Plants cultivated in soil fertilized with organic or mineral fertilizers significantly exceeded the plants cultivated in untreated soil in the number and length of leaves, the leaf area, the leaf surface, the proportion of floral stem and diameter, number of flower buds, the lily plants responded to high phosphoric mineral fertilization, which resulted in a significant increase in both vegetative growth (number of leaves, leaf length, leaf area), number of flowers (floral stem diameter, diameter and number of floral buds). The treatment of the use of large bulbs (21-25 cm) was significantly to that of small bulbs (17-20 cm) in all vegetative growth indicators while not exceeding the number of flower buds. The combined effect of the large size of the bulb used in agriculture and the high phosphorus mineral fertilizer showed significant superiority in most of the studied indicators