Hi Ina You can do this with many plants if you keep them moist & rot free. I've done this with crinums & they are really easy, babies shoot quickly even from quartered plants. Ive always waited until growth is most active. I've done it by accident with habranthes robustus & zephyranthes I can't think of it ?? The large fragrant white one, cutting them exactly I'n half when digging them up, I always replant the bits & some of them survive for several months but dont shoot, some re-shoot but don't recover well enough to offset, & some shoot offsets easily. Personally i think if you had a rare one it wouldn't be worth the risk, because most whole zephs shoot offsets reasonably quickly. Steven : ) Esk Queensland Australia Summer Zone 5 Winter Zone 10 On 27/09/2012, at 4:32 PM, Ina <klazina@orcon.net.nz> wrote: > I was asked today if I had ever seen the method used of multiplying > Zephyranthes by cutting the bulb > Ina Crossley > Auckland New Zealand Zone 10 > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/