----- Original Message ----- From: "J.E. Shields" <jshields@indy.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 2:50 PM Subject: Re: [pbs] What promotes blooming? > While adequate moisture is certainly a key factor in getting Crinum to > bloom, I think that, in the garden, two other factors are also very > important: 1) size; and 2) settling in. Agreed. But.......Is it just coincidental that whatever critical factors (age, settling in, etc.) just "happened" to coincide with the natural rainfall? Perhaps yes, perhaps no. It rained, a day passed, then *boom*, the scape appeared overnight. > Robert, where are you located? It seems to me like it was Texas, but my > recall seems to have been recalled in the last few years! I hear that. ;-). I'm in North Carolina, west of Charlotte, zone 7b. Robert.