Hello Tom How long do you have them and do you know if they are wild collected flowering size bulbs ?? Roland 2010/9/4 Tom Mitchell <tom@evolution-plants.com> > I have a few flowering sized bulbs of Crinum delagoense from coastal > southern Mozambique, where they grow in pure sand, often growing and > blooming well after fires. Summer growers of course. I also have a few young > seedlings, grown from seed from the same source. Whereas the seedlings are > doing fine the mature bulbs are sulking and refusing to put up leaves. Any > suggestions how to encourage them into growth? I thought maybe bottom heat > on a warm bench (air temperatures rarely rise above 25 degrees C here - > sorry if you're sweating through a mid west summer)? Or should I give up for > this season and let the pots get completely dry? If so, would some kind of > smoke treatment be worth trying? Knowing me I'd burn the greenhouse down > attempting this, so further tips would be appreciated. > > Tom > Wiltshire, England, Zone 8_______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Tel./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com