Mary Sue....thanks for initiating this line of discussion. I know so little about the small Cyrtanthus I began from the seed exchange I don't even know if they should be forced to go dormant on the greenhouse bench. And - if you tried to "burn up" your larger potted bulbs by piling on some pine needles and setting fire to them, for example, how far under the surface of the soil are Cyrtanthus bulbs in nature? Because perhaps not all the effects are due to smoke or smoke water, but some initiate bloom due to heating up or charring of parts of the bulb? And there's surely a fine line between a little charring to initiate bloom, and a bulb getting cooked? Waiting to hear more - Cynthia W. Mueller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Sue Ittner" <msittner@mcn.org> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 7:29 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] Cyrtanthus TOW > > >Mary Sue said..." Has anyone ever tried using liquid smoke with the ones that won't bloom or > planting them in clay pots and then setting pine needles or twigs or > something on top on fire to get them to bloom, etc?" > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php