Hi Jennifer, You can count on the fact that everyone on the robin knows more about the technicality of germinating seeds than I do. However, let me just do a little supposition here to satisfy my need for logic. My L. m. bloomed this summer, produced the seed pods (very slow to ripen), pods broke open, I collected the seed and sent it to the BX and Dell sent them out. So here we are in the fall. In nature presumably the seeds would have fallen to the ground near the base of the plant. Then the winter rains would have gradually washed off the seed coating (or it would have just rotted off over the winter). Thereafter, in spring, the seed would normally germinate. I kept a couple of the L.m. seeds and potted up the mother bulb (wait till you see the photo of this!) into a larger pot with new soil (plus some pumace and a little sponge rok) and just poked the seeds into the same pot about an inch down. This worked last year and I didn't lose any sleep fretting over whether to plant them now, how to store them until the spring, or what to do about the seed coat. Things are so hectic around here that if it can't be done expeditiously, it doesn't get done at all. Cathy Craig President PBS Maritime zone 9b >