Dear All, I added Bill's picture of his thousands of seedlings to the wiki Tecophilaea page: http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… I checked my pot today and it looks like I'm going to have more than one flower in bloom in a few days. Since I love blue flowers if you listen carefully you may hear me exclaiming since I've looked forward to this event for a long time. One thing really interests me. Lee Poulsen says that his plants always make a lot of offsets. Do they have to be a certain size to do this? Or do some do this and not others. The ones I have been (slowly) growing from seed have never made offsets. I've lost maybe one or two of the three varieties from my initial sowing, but mostly the number of corms has remained stable after the second year. As I said before in my experience some seeds come up the first year and some the second year even after spending a dry summer. Mary Sue Mary Sue Ittner California's North Coast Wet mild winters with occasional frost Dry mild summers