I started seed from Cal Hort in early October 2017 outside, no special treatment, but when it would have probably gotten a fluctuation in temperature during the day since that is often our warmest time of the year in Northern California when there is little fog. It came up in a couple of weeks and flowered this year. The seed wouldn't have been fresh since it would have been offered late winter and I didn't try it until the next year at a time I thought it would grow. It stayed green for a long time so I continued to water it. If plants range from the Gifberg in the western Cape to the Eastern Cape they would be growing in a lot of different situations so perhaps the origin of the original bulbs might make a difference in when to start seed. Mary Sue On 9/7/2021 3:30 PM, Jim Foster via pbs wrote: > I have a few grams of this small seed but have little luck getting it > to germinate. I send some seed to a recent BX and feel bad about my > inability to grow a plant from seed so I'm reluctant to offer it > again. Has anyone had experience with this plant and if so how did > you get it to germinate. I've tried potting it with a light sand > cover and the flotation method with no success. There is little > information on the web. I think it was ISI'd as 2013-27. My plant > came from the Huntington in 2018. > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>