Hi all, I received five of the little plantlets with their roots in clear medium from Steve Vinisky in 1998. In September 1999, all 5 were still alive and healthy. The first plant bloomed in April 2002. I don't know how long it took to get the t.c. explants to the size plantlets that I received; if I had to guess, I'd hazard about 3 years. I currently have only one survivor, and the losses were due to heavy summer rains for several years in a row, before I had an all-weather greenhouse. This caused various rots and fungal infections of the mature plants. Leaving valuable Clivia plants outdoors in the weather in summer is apparently not a good idea in this part of the country. I had similar misfortunes with other clivia plants over those same summers, so it's not something specific to 'Vico Yellow'. It was the miserable weather here. I have one scape on the surviving plant of 'Vico Yellow' (t.c.) at the moment. I intend to pollinate those blooms shortly. I have a few seedlings from those early Vico blooms, but none are anywhere near blooming size yet. My t.c. plantlets grew to bloom size within 4 years of my receiving them, but they got a LOT of T.L.C. The seedlings from the Vico plants have been rather slower growing; but they don't get much, if any, T.L.C.! Regards, Jim Shields in central Indiana (USA) At 02:13 PM 3/24/2008 -0700, you wrote: >Mary Sue Ittner wrote: > > I'd be > > curious if others have tissue culture plants that grew much more rapidly > > like they are supposed to. > > > > Mary Sue > > ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA