can bulbs be placed in freezer to simulate dormancy

by emily
(tennessee)

can you place your lillies in the freezer to simulate dormancy?

Doug says no. Putting any bulb in the freezer will freeze it solid. Simply popping a bulb into the freezer without having allowed it to perpare itself will kill it.

This is not a good thing unless the bulb has gone through a natural "getting ready for winter" cycle and has enough anti-freeze in its tissues to survive being frozen in the ground. This normally happens gradually in the fall as the ground slowly gets colder and colder. The all-at-once shock will simply kill off bulbs.