Dear Darren, We welcome all bulb questions. People join our list all the time and won't know what has been discussed before. And besides I think the answers sometimes change as we gather more experience. So please don't stop asking questions and anyone who has a suggestion for the best fertilizer for Hippeastrum hybrids, Gladiolus hybrids, and Lilium longifolium please respond. On the other hand sometimes people won't take the time to answer if something has been discussed thoroughly before so checking with the archives can be very helpful. It used to be much easier to search our archives since there was a global search on our archive page. But with an updated program that is no longer possible. This formula on Google = http://www.google.com/webhp/ works quite well however. I have placed the formula on http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/ in case you forget it. But then you have to remember where to find it I guess. It is: +[pbs] [search terms] site:///lists.ibiblio.org So in this case I put this in the google search box: +[pbs] [fertilizer] site:///lists.ibiblio.org and came up with 261 hits. Changing fertilizer to fertilize generates a few more. They won't all be what you are looking for, but there will be some wonderful posts from the past found that way. I remember Gordon Summerfield had suggested what worked for him with South African bulbs so if I wanted to find that I'd do: +[pbs] [fertilizer Summerfield] site:///lists.ibiblio.org Learning how to search on Google is very helpful as otherwise you get too many hits. Even though it is off topic some of you may want to share your tips on searching. Mary Sue