Well, I had almost given up on my gladiolus collection of seeds from Silverhill. I had them under my normal seed sprouting technique of eastern window in Ziplock bags. After 8-12 months, I moved a lot of them outside in a semi shaded area. Then with a few sporadic seedlings here and there, I moved them into full sun. Then I took the bags off of them and got a few more seedlings. I have had only 10% germination though but it is better than nothing. I did sow last year's seed crop of G. tristis in a one-gallon size pot in regular garden soil. They are all up and growing now even with my sporadic watering schedule. Maybe that is the key. I was keep ing the others too wet? Anyone else have thoughts on this? Maybe it was the constant night and day temperature change? The same thing is true about all the Romulea seeds that I had. I was rather delighted to see some pots were full of seedlings. Off the top of my head I can't rememeber what sp. they are but I have gotten maybe 50-60% germination from them not too. ===== John Ingram jjingram@adelphia.net Floralartistry2000@yahoo.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/… http://www.geocities.com/floralartistry2000/ http://photos.yahoo.com/floralartistry2000/