Hi Rodger , To your question with floral trunks : I could report you of a sucsessfull rooting of Cyclamen purpurascens - without any problems . A friend of mine send me some plants - and from some are broken the floral trunks . I decide it to try - and after next repotting I could see that all this floral trunks has build a new tuber . Many greetings Hans -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org]Im Auftrag von totototo@telus.net Gesendet: Montag, 21. August 2006 19:40 An: Pacific Bulb Society Betreff: [pbs] Cyclamen from Cuttings of Floral Trunks? I'm nuking a patch of Vinca minor with some Cyclamen hederifolium scattered in it. Hard, dirty, hot work using a Japanese farmer's knife to undercut and then rolling back the tangled mat of stems, leaves, and roots. In the process, I unavoidably severed the floral trunks arising from one especially deeply seated cyclamen. The old brain cogitated and the thought arose "I wonder if the mythical process of rooting floral trunks really works?" This is just a preliminary notification that I've taken these pieces of floral trunk, the longest no more than half an inch, dabbled them with rooting hormone (Stimroot #2), and put them into a pot of perlite with abt. 25% peatmoss, a fairly standard mixture for cuttings. More news later when either success or failure attends my efforts, but in the interim I'm wondering, has anyone on the pbs mailing list successfully rooted floral trunks of cyclamen? -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php