In a message dated 03-Feb-04 7:00:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, jshields104@insightbb.com writes: > When the remaining bulb doubles again, plant one outdoors in the ground and > chip the other. Jim ~ Chipping (or the allied method, twin scaling) is a pretty standard way of increasing stocks of daffodils, as well as galanthus and, perhaps, other tunicate bulbs. Some years ago, I was told by a Dutch grower who routinely chipped (rather than twin scaled because the bulbs are so small) some of the narcissus species, that he had gotten better (i.e., faster results) when he chipped an unbloomed chipped bulb. In other words, chip a chipped bulb before it gets large enough to bloom. It does seem to make sense in that a bulb preparing to bloom undergoes certain physiological changes that a bulb not large enough to bloom does not. Thus, the energy stores remain concentrated on vegetative growth, I guess. Probably shouldn't tell you still very much snow-bound folks back east that out here on the Left Coast, daffodils are starting to bloom, cymbidium and cyclamen are and the camellias (before many of them were knocked off by very heavy rains in the last 24 hours) are covered with bloom. Despite that, spring really doesn't begin for another several weeks . . . really, the very best reason for having a cold greenhouse in any climate! Dave Karnstedt