Hi all; Like Joe, I love some of the Naturalized Bulbispermum. I have 2 alba varieties and 4 white/pink varieties. I can document the history of most of them dating to the early 40's. I have had up to 7 scapes in one year from my original alba. The original bulb is now more than 15 years old. I have come to the conclusion that naturalized bulbispermum can be induced to offset some by my processing them for the garden. I use a medium pressure hose nozzle to remove all the soil and trash from the bulbs. I have enough problems with weeds from the pastures on either side of my beds. I remove old scales down to a good solid healthy bulb, making sure to peel the scales to the basal plate. I trim green leaves and roots to 4" each. This procedure is the only difference in the way I process bulbs. I am working on proving that removing scale layers induces offsets. I might add that I have offsets on two bulbispermum bulbs I received from Jim Shields. They are from imported genetics and have not offset for Jim. Soil here, 40 miles east of Austin, is heavy very fine sand that drains very quickly. I amend soil with composted pine bark mulch and peat moss tilled into the sand with my 6' tiller. Beds of bulbs are planted with as many as 50 bulbs of a variety taken from offsets where possible. My latest acquisition was from a bar ditch that had heavy bulbispermum for almost 1/2 mile. Al Sisk PO Box 68 Lexington, TX 78947 USDA zone 8b al at alsisk dot com