A lazy man's way as an alternative to scaling. If you have just purchased an expensive cultivar with a nice size bulb, or, if purchased 3 or so as a group and want to speed up multiplication of any bulb, cut the sprouting stem off when it gets about an inch or two long before planting. Of course, you won't get any flowers the following year, but you'll get lots of new little plants which will bloom the following year next. All those sprouted bulbs being posted to the data base reminded me to post this. Below are some pictures of Johan Mak's of 'Morning After' which I inadvertently broke the stem off last year while removing it from the bag. For size comparison, the one next to it is another Mak Bulb, 'Sunnyside Down' As you can see, there won't be any flowers this year---but there are 16 little plants. It's a method I've used safety for years. Maybe tomorrow I put on a little demonstration with pictures on some sprouted bulbs I have that are still not planted and we can track those through the next 2 years.
