Hi all, Mary Sue, some Haemanthus do the same thing. For the fleshy-seed amaryllids, I simply plant the seeds whenever I can, then keep them growing indoors under 16 hr/day fluorescent lights and plenty of water. I usually keep them in continuous growth for 15-18 months, until their next natural growth cycle would start. At that point they go into the greenhouse or outdoors. From there on, they get the normal annual cycle of dormancy, same as their older conspecifics. Jim Shields in warm, wet Westfield, Indiana At 11:37 AM 5/1/2010 -0700, you wrote: >Hi, > >Over the years we have been told that there are some fleshy Amaryllid >(as in the smaller definition of this family instead of the wider >one) seeds that need to be planted immediately >......... >We've talked about putting fleshy Amaryllid seed into the >refrigerator if it arrives from another hemisphere at the wrong time >hoping to delay when you start it to a better time weather wise and I >guess it was cool enough where I had the seeds to have the same >effect. But in this case they were not protected in any way and still >did not shrivel and die and without any soil still formed a bulb. > >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