My experience with rain lilies goes back decades, Zephyranthes grandiflora (now carinata?) for the longest since there was always a pot when around when I was a child. Since then I have gradually acquired others and they all get the same treatment, which is to move the pots to the cellar in late October and let then dry out with no water until they are moved out again in April. They get watered all summer and most bloom intermittently. There is often some foliage growth in the dark cellar until the pots dry out. Temperature about 60F in winter. The beauty of this is that they require no attention when indoor growing space is at a premium. The most floriferous under this regimen are Z. grandiflora, Z. macrociphon, and 'Labuffarosea'. Z. candida also thrives with this treatment although only blooming in fall and is also hardy outdoors here. I haven't tried many of the new hybrids. Charles Cresson Southeastern Pennsylvania, warming into zone7a of late Message: 8 Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:35:28 -0500 From: John Ignacio <Gianinatio@yahoo.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> Subject: Re: [pbs] Rain Lily dormancy Message-ID: <BD44A671-615F-4695-8068-3E6E9C90D2AF@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mike - rain lilies (Zephyranthes) are not normally winter dormant. Their dormancy periods are much more aligned to hostile conditions. So here where several are Native they grow vigorously from first fall rains to first very hard freeze, then from last very hard freeze to first summer heat/ drought. They really prefer the intermediate temps of spring and fall, which may explain why yours are exiting dormancy. If they don?t get a very hard freeze, many prefer to continue growing through winter. I?ve found that cool greenhouse growth in winter really causes them to thrive. I?d say they want to grow in mid 50s. I can?t advise on forcing dormancy, since I?ve never tried it. But I would have left them out with perhaps a light frost cover, until the cold actually induced dormancy then put them in a very cool place like a garage. John Ignacio 8b *********************************** _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…