Hi all, Angelo's complaint mirrors mine exactly: Cyrtanthus elatus never bloomed for me in all the years that I had it. I have to say that I threw out my last bulbs of C. elatus several years ago! Never again will I waste good greenhouse space on Cyrtanthus elatus. C. sanguineus also blooms reliably here every year for me. I also find that it never has set seed. My bulbs of C. mackenii cooperi also bloom just about every year. Both these species have filled their respective pots to overcrowding with offsets, several of which also bloom. A large bulb of C. obliquus that I bought a year or so ago is still large and seems pretty healthy, but has not so far bloomed for me. Three large bulbs of C. falcatus, bought at the same time as the obliquus, have produced only one single scape so far. Small bulbs of C. montanus are slowly growing toward what I hope will eventually be blooming size. Small seedling bulbs of C. brachyscyphus are just sitting there, perhaps because they are too crowded in their original communal seed pot. I have lost 100 % of seedlings (from seed) of CC. breviflorus and flanaganii. On the other hand, C. obliquus seedlings (from seed) are doing very nicely, and I should probably pot them up into individual pots this winter before they start to grow again. I grow all of my Cyrtanthus in pots, of course. They would not survive long outdoors in the ground in my climate. I pot all of them in gritty mix: Promix + sand + granite chick starter grit ( 2 : 1 : 1 ). They spend the winter inside a greenhouse, almost always completely dry; in summer they go outside, in full sun. This may not be the best way to grow Cyrtanthus, it is merely the way I try to grow all of my Cyrtanthus. It doesn't always work. I look forward to this discussion because I would like to be able to grow more Cyrtanthus species and to grow the tough ones more successfully (at least more successfully than 100% mortality!) Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA Member of INTERNATIONAL CLIVIA CO-OP