On 25 Jan 08, at 10:43, Jane McGary wrote: > [Cyclamen from seed:] Best success is had with fresh seed... Don't you believe it. Dry cyclamen seed is just fine. The trick is to give it a good, long soak in water with a drop of dish detergent before sowing. By long I mean at least a week. If the water clouds, rinse the seed and transfer them to fresh water. The seed pots need outdoor conditions so they experience natural annual and diurnal variations in temperature. Most, perhaps all, cyclamen species germinate when mature plants start to leaf out, thus hederifolium in the fall, coum in the winter, repandum in the spring, and so on. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island