Hello : ) The original bulbs all got pulled out by the goats & they ate all the tops & bulbs off, only leaving the small hardened stem sections from the center, they were young plants & had never flowered before, the cutting was from the middle of the stem & was about 6cm long, i used a little rooting gel & never really expected it to grow, so i just stuck it in a moist edge of the garden & left it alone.. It took about 15 months to grow & flower.. I have grown babies from other liliums from "stem bulbs" before which are common after flowering, but the cutting grown plant flowered long before any of my stem bulbs.. Steven Esk Queensland Australia Zone 5 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:55 AM, J. Agoston <agoston.janos123@gmail.com>wrote: Was it before flowering or after flowering?