Thanks Jim, I am at alt. approx 500m, bulbs are about the size of large hens eggs, but a friend who lives on the coast has bulbs the same age that are larger than tennis balls and offsetting like crazy. kym Very wet near Cairns, North Queensland > Hi, > > They are both evergreen. The aulicum can use a month of drying off in > summer to help initiate bloom in winter -- I have some aulicum seedlings in > the greenhouse blooming for the first time right now. > > I think two years old is still too young to expect blooms on Hippeastrum > species seedlings. > > My greenhouses are too cold in winter for the calyptratum, I'm afraid, and > have too low a relative humidity as well, I suspect. H. calyptratum has > never bloomed for me, but I keep hoping. > > Jim Shields > in cold and snowy Westfield, Indiana > USA