Jacinda cross posted her message on the Australian list and Rob Hamilton reported on that list what Lee Poulsen has said in the past and that is that his blooming sized Tecophilaea increases every year by reproducing each year a new corm and two small ones next to it. So that in a very short time his initial investment of one expensive bulb paid off in many additional bulbs. I purchased bulbs and seed from Bill Dijk in the past and have some survivors and eventually some blooms, but never any increasing. In my case the number of bulbs I have every year seems to be diminishing. I felt somewhat better after Lee wrote this in May: "It is almost embarrassingly easy for me to grow and multiply the various varieties of Tecophilaea cyanocrocus starting from just one bulb each. I treat them virtually identically to how I treat my Cape Bulbs on an annual basis. I've germinated seeds of T. cyanocrocus a number of times, and I germinate and grow them with my other Cape Bulb seeds that I'm germinating and growing. However, unlike the mature bulbs pots where each fall it seems that each bulb has added 2 or more additional offsets, very few to none of my pots of T. cyanocrocus seedlings bother to emerge in the fall/winter even though their neighbor Cape Bulb seedlings return to growth just fine. The few Tecos that do return grow just fine, but then finally disappear the second summer never to be seen again." There are a lot of people on this list who grow Tecophilaea. What is your experience? Do you find it increases well from offsets? Perhaps it is time for me to try some of Lee's increasing corms to see if they behave the same way in Northern California as they do in Southern California. Mary Sue