Alberto Castillo asked: Are you familiar with increasing crocuses, freesias and others by > removal of the main shoot? My answer is that although I know it can be done I have never done it deliberately... Equally, however, the loss of a main shoot has never stopped me planting a corm. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/