I have never divided one of these plants before, actually the only plants I have divided are Day Lily's and Agapanthus but that was a couple of months ago they settled in well and started flowering this week also but they are as tough as old boots.

The new Crinum offspring grew late last year but the parent plant I planted in December 2002 and this is the first time it has flowered, will it take that long for the new ones to flower. Is there any special way to divide it, and when, looking forward to any help.

MM.

One website said that the Aboriginals in Nth Qld use this plant to treat jelly fish stings.
Did you know that all parts of the bulb are poisonous if ingested, and the sap may
cause skin eruptions, not that anyone wants to dine off it but it is good to know
about the skin irritation. Interesting.....MM

I grow quite a few crinum in south florida - and find digging up larger bulbs often meant going down as far as 24-30 inches on some of the species here under tropical conditions. I could guess under drier conditions that bulbs could be much deeper and was wondering if any of you found that to be true?

Some types (usually larger bulbs) have sometimes bloomed for me fairly soon after replanting ... I thought it might be attributed due to the stress and size of bulb... but others, especially the smaller ones may often not grow much for a couple of months - and then may not bloom for a year or two.

I find some crinum (like J.C.Harvey) were quite shy after relocating. Some species and hybrids off-set so rapidly I was actually digging up portions to give away after several years. I have also used ropes and pieces of boards to lift and relocate some larger clumps intact when I did not want to divide.

I recommend starting about a foot away from plants and digging down ... so that you stay well away from bulbs.
If you do cut any expensive types by accident try dusting with something like root-tone (fungicide & rooting hormone) and then maybe roll up or wrap the sections back together with some layers of paper towels - you usually end up with additional small plants.... I resorted to that after I had accidently chopped some up when digging too close to them!

They are in raised garden beds and the top 30cms is lovely soil but below that is a different thing any way we will see how we go. Cheers .....MM.