I am very gratefull for the Information of Willem Van Eeden Roland, Thankyou. There was no mention of ink spot in the 2008 thread, I have just read all 24 pages of it. I did discover Zhirair also uses leafmould for his retics, and the possible origin of winowgradowii "Alba". In the 2010 thread there was a discussion of Ink Spot with several links of a technical nature provided by Maggie and others. Peter (UK) http://srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php/… On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, bulborum botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com>wrote: > Willem van Eeden harvested the bulbs just before they where completely > dormant > > You can find a lot of information here > http://srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php/… > >