I have grown Tecophilaea cyanocrocus for many years in a climate colder than Lee Poulsen's but not so cold as New York state. In nature it is a snowmelt plant, flowering when the volcanic-derived soil is quite moist; I think of it as having a similar cycle to deciduous Lewisia species and indeed they look beautiful together in bloom. I had in it pots for a long time but now it's in a raised bed under a transparent roof. Each corm usually produces one to three offsets each year, and seed is frequently set. Those I used to sell were mostly seedlings about three years old. The main thing I can tell someone who has to grow it in a heated greenhouse is that it will need as much light as you can give it, and it must not be grown too warm. The plants I grew in a frost-free solarium never flowered as well as those in my old bulb frames, where the plants experienced winter temperatures in the 20s F. I think they look most in character when grown as hard as they can stand, since in the foothills of the Andes, within the snow zone, they would experience cold night temperatures while in growth. According to the report of the botanists who rediscovered this species in the wild some years ago, the white-centered forms are more common in the populations they observed. I suspect the pure blue forms have been selected by growers over a long period and have become dominant in cultivation. The name "subsp. leichtlinii" for the white-centered forms is probably not valid, since these are just a common color variant. My seedlings show a range of color patterns. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA