Last year, when my one blooming accession of Ferraria crispa bloomed, I hand pollinated several flowers. Those flowers produced seeds. Next summer I should repot this accession. I just repotted Mary Sue's vanilla-scented Ferraria from a 6-inch clay azalea pot into a 2-gallon regular plastic pot. The tubers were almost all at the bottom of the pot when I dumped them out. So I planted them about mid-way down in the new larger container. The largest tubers were those at the lowest points, and they had not sprouted at all, while the smaller tubers were almost all starting growth of new shoots. We'll have to wait another year to see what happens with these. Regards, Jim Shields At 10:47 AM 12/23/2004 +0100, you wrote: >I am not really fascinated from this genus, but I do grow Ferraria crispa >in my climate and it is a plant with great potentiality to become >invasive, like other winter growing South African irids such Freesia alba >and Chasmante floribunda. >It multiplies at allarming rate vegetatively, but at the moment I don't >remember if it set seeds. I will check next season. > >happy holidays >Angelo ************************************************* 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