Hi Gang, I have a strategy I use for plants from Africa, Asia, and other continents that come from seasonal wetlands, and which can take some mild frosts (20-25 F for a few hours). I call it the "average seasonal wetland plant growth strategy." I plant such plants in good soil in big pots, 3- or 5-gallon nursery containers or larger, and I water them twice a week in hot summer weather and less often in wetter or cooler times. Such plants are often some of the few things from mostly Mediterranean climates that will grow here in the greater Houston area. They survive (I surmise) because they are riverine or seasonal wetland plants and adapted to humidity and wetness, but many of them are great survivors of seasonal drought too. Alternating periods of wetness and drought is the case for the Gulf Coast of Texas. We have months of too much rain, and then months of not enough rain. Anyway, I've been growing Crinum variabile seedlings for several years. They have muddled along and done OK. But, last Fall I put several bulbs in pots and set them out in the low part of my yard where they often get a few inches of water for weeks on end (2-3 seedlings per 3-gallon pot). I also kept a few pots of C. variabile in my "typical conditions" for seasonal wetland plants from not-too-cold areas-conditions where the plants get irrigation but not flooding waters. I have been very pleasantly surprised to find that the C. variabile plants in flooded areas have grown a lot, producing much top growth. The species doesn't seem to create large bulbs, but the "wet" plants are surely making more bulb growth than the plants in the compromise conditions. So, I infer that one size (or type of growing conditions) does not fit all plants, even though I wish such were the case. Cordially, Joe