Brian, don't be bashful about taking a few bulb scales from your incoming bulb shipment. Even if they are just accidentally broken off, they can still be good propagation material. The scale bulblets in that thread were initiated and grown just by placing the scales in a 3x4 inch ziplock baggy with a barely moist paper towel, left on the kitchen counter (not in the dark) at about 60-65F. They were removed from the mother bulb with scaling in mind, so were broken off very close to the basal plate. It seems martagons tend to do better at cooler temps. Normally, I would scale propagate at 65-70+ F. Also normally, I use a medium of sphagnum moss and perlite.
I think it was Polly Pard who suggested I put the bulb photos in the data base. At the time, I didn't see a way to explain anything, thinking that if the bulb was the only photo in the data base for the species, viewers might think they were meant to be eaten. (Well actually, they are edible; but that is a another story.) So anyway, none are in the data base. I see now the comment area can be used with adequacy. Where a flower is already entered in addition, I might rethink my reservations about adding bulb pics.
