I enjoy cloning a lot, Tracey. It keeps me involved with lilies in some form or another all throughout the year. Last fall, I cloned a virused plant for the assurance of a seed and pollen source in the future. Bulblet development was fairy quick with good quantities. They were the first ones out of the chill and I now have 12 up and showing so far. I'm pretty happy with that because this particular plant was one of those brought to me from that estate sale dig and the one on my avatar (also, picture below). But I have real disappointments, too. This year I had trouble keeping things as warm in incubation as I wanted and some samples were stubborn with really slow development. Many days it was around 67'F/68'F. So I bought a thermostatically controlled heat mat. With a dry run and proper bedding I could regulate temps pretty well, no higher than 75'f. But one night the thing malfunctioned, the temperature rose to 149.7'F and it cooked the remaining 6 bags of scales to mush. And one of those was one I wanted more of pretty badly. But, we'll try again next year!
