I've seen instructions, probably on youtube, where a large hippeastrum bulb has the basal plate cut from the bottom 'like a pie into 8 or more sections, cut no deepet than 1" or so. The upper part of the bulb is left intact, treated with a fungicide, and planted in a pot. This might be a more certain method than working with leaves? Rick Buell -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 2/15/18, Jane Sargent <jane@deskhenge.com> wrote: Subject: [pbs] E Z Clone To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018, 8:22 PM By chance I have obtained a machine called an E Z Clone, which is still in its box. It is meant to root cuttings. The cutting is treated with rooting hormone and put in a collar such that the lower end of the stem is in a dark chamber where it is constantly misted or sprayed. The top of the cutting is out in the air and benefits from a window or a plant light. I was wondering whether anybody on the forum had tried to root or multiply a bulb with this, instead of an herbaceous or woody cutting. If the bulb were, for example, a culinary onion, I would think it possible to place the basal plate on my cutting board and cut down through the onion´s peak, perhaps several times, making eight little white onionettes, each with some basal plate and hormone goo, and try to stick each through a plastic collar so that just the bottom part was in the wet chamber. Perhaps this is an idiotic idea. Another method might be to sprout the bulb in dirt and try to make roots grow on a removed leaf. Has anybody tried this? Should the machine stay in the box? And as for what is blooming here in Massachusetts: nothing. We call this winter. We are collecting groundhog recipes. Jane Sargent _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…