Dear M. Waddick, Here (Southern Urop'), we are reaching a first blooming peak today. A few months ago, I ran some statistics on previous years' blooming series gathered from different saffron farmers, looking for correlations between C. sativus blooming and the lunar cycle. There is some significant effect with the new and full moons, where C. sativus synchronizes in the field. Does anyone knows about other species behaving this way ? if scholars investigated the phenomenon ? and what hypotheses have been considered to explain blooming synchronization with the lunar phase ? The weather has been cold and rainy for the last two days, not exactly the conditions for a good blooming - but here it is (with the new moon). Christian