http://www.aboutproduce.com/faq/ethylene.html Might check this out. >Myth busters of the world, unite! This has been an accepted piece of garden >lore for at least as long as I've been gardening. However, it seems we have >been worrying needlessly. > >According to information I received from a researcher in Holland, the amount >of ethylene gas given off by fruit such as apples is relatively small. >Further, refrigerator temperatures of 38° to 42° Fahrenheit reduces the >production of ethylene gas, and also slows the bulbs' metabolism, further >limiting the influence of the gas in the flower embryo within the bulbs. He >seemed to think that the "ethylene gas blights bulbs' flowers" is just not >supported by the facts. > >I discuss this at somewhat greater length/ more detail in "Bulbs for Garden >Habitats" which will, God willing and the creeks don't rise, be released by >Timber Press in May 2005. > >Judy in New Jersey where the creek, uninfluenced by hurricanes, has not yet >risen. -- susan, who is..... owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... on the North Coast of CA, USA susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004