Hello Gastil, Nice to read that your sowing was sucessful and the donated seeds came into good hands. You ask what to do next with the seedlings. I assume they were sown in pots. How big are the pots? It is most important that they NEVER dry out at this stage. I had to learn the hard way that bigger pots are better than smaller pots in this respect. You live in Southern California where even in winter it can be quite warm. The next thing is to fertilize the seedlings. Not too much but young bulbs are quite greedy plants. And if they are kept green as long as ever possible in spring they will form bulbs big enough to survive the first dormancy. When the weather gets warmer in spring and the sun more intense I move the seed trays into a shady position and/or cover with shade cloth. Your sowing was fairly late for winter growers and an early dormancy triggered by heat would be fatal. What you describe as a root loop in Lilium candidum seedlings is in fact the leaf and not the root. It germinates like a green loop with the leaf tip still attached to the seed but the tip will eventually free itself and stretch and become upright. A second or third more typical leaf will follow. I sent an article to Robin Hanson for the next isue of the "Bulb Garden" which deals with my personal experience in raising bulbs from seed. bye for today Uli _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…