Hi, In the North West of England rhubarb does go dormant in Summer and recently people have sold varieties which do not exhibit this behaviour. Turning to seedlings. Old gardners would curse my efforts with "don't over pot it", by which they meant don't use pots too big. Reading this discussions makes me think that the seedlings don't know how big their pots are, but big pots may be easier to overwater or offer some other environmental hazard. I used to feel that extra deep pots were the things for bulb seedlings (again maybe combatting my over watering). Looking at Gastil's mini-plunge makes me think that once one has made that leap forward some kind of computer control of conditions would be easy and cover many pots. In reality seedlings always seem to like to grow in the cracks between paving flags. -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/ _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…