Hi all, Some of my Haemanthus seedlings are trying to bloom for the first time this year. Three Haemanthus barkerae started scapes while in summer storage, but they aborted. Now one H. coccineus is showing some reddish bracts and a couple of white anthers(?) in the neck of the bulb. Is there any good way to get the scape to elongate out of the neck? This pot is in the greenhouse now. Doug Westfall asked in another list about the affects if any on its next year's bloom from setting seeds on a bulb (Haemanthus also). I'm curious about that myself, since I want to do some crosses once my Haemanthus plants are big enough to bloom. Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. +1-317-896-3925