I agree with Lynn. My experiment was simply to test a theory, and when re-establishing a personal collection of semps I was looking to accelerate the numbers of each variety from the few that are sent via mail-order. I'm also interested in chicks as insurance against losses from hens flowering and dying.
Some plants are so free with chicks, there really isn't much need to pull off chicks early, only perhaps to pot up some to give away to friends, or have available to trade. By the way Karen, 'Abba' looks very nice, somehow it's missing from my want list, so I added it
