My advice would be not to disturb the seedlings for a few years, merely pottting the whole lot together into bigger pots. They are desperately slow-growing and seem to resent disturbance. I have a singleton of B. radulosa grown from seed collected in 1997, and obviously potted up early in its career. It is much smaller than seedlings of my own collection from the same population in 2002, which are still in their sowing pot, but are twice the size. They are now just going dormant. I will pot-on the whole lot together into a deep pot just as they come back into activity next spring. I think it is particularly important not to damage the roots and it may be that in a small pot the single bulb dries out too much in winter & the roots shrivel, whereas the larger volume of compost in the community pot doesn't desiccate so much. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <hornig@usadatanet.net> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:48 PM Subject: [pbs] Potting up seedling brunsvigias? > Hi all - I have some first-year seedlings of Brunsvigia radulosa and B. > grandiflora, both summer-rainfall bulbs. In the greenhouse (and I gather > in nature as well) they seem inclined to keep their leaves into the winter, > but of course they aren't actively growing. When is the best time to prick > these out of their community pots and move them up? > >