Maybe next Spring some Flowers

Yes, done for the interest as it's a long job but well worthwhile just to see the results!good job done

Very good Brian, they look really good.

An interesting experiment, and you've had the fun of doing it, hope you get lots of flowers next year!

Very interesting. Is this how Galanthophiles increase the stock of the very expensive bulbs?

great way to increase you collection. Always keen to learn how to increase plants, this is very informative.

You are so patient and careful of your plants Bjs. Its great to see how you achieved your goal. We will look forward to seeing those flowers next year.

Scottish yes that's how it's done they cut much thinner slices than i did,apparently 32 sections is possible with a very sharp blade.

wow, Bjs, and a very steady hand, too! A very good experiment: was it worth it and will you be trying it again on other bulbs? other species, I mean?

Well I'll be blowed, that would never occur to me to try that, I don't have any valuable ones here except to me but its always good to learn new tricks and ways to increase ones bulbs, you do have a lot of patience Bjs, thankyou, have you done the same with other bulbs.

Goodness me - I couldn't even slice a spanish onion into 32 slices, doing a snowdrop bulb would be well beyond me!!

a good technique to master BJS. I just dont seem to have the patience and OH would say the space to do it.
well done

Congratulation, Brian. I very much like your invention in garden!

Katarina
Far from being my development I read articles that explained how it is done and went from there.

but you dunnit!

I've just been telling Pcw about an article on fritillarias. In it the technique is discussed but the author says he has only tried cutting a bulb in two. He did not have the courage to try more slices. Nothing ventured, nothing gained but you will be over the moon when you see your flowers.

Scotsgran that sounds a whole different ball game cutting Frits,they fall to pieces looking at them.
Where was the article.

Here is the link. It is a long article. It is from the Fritillaria group of the Alpine Society. http://www.fritillaria.org.uk/Articles/growing_fritillaries_by_cyril_lafong.htm

I've always been a bit wary of dividing bulbs: as I understood it, the bulb was the energy store for the new plant, and the less entery there was in store, the lower the chances of the plant gowirng well, or even at all. Of course, they might if they're given special treatment and soil and such.

Fran you are right the bulb is the food store,but as with everything when faced with death it makes a last final attempt to hold on to life,trees often set many more seed or fruit when faced with drought others will produce flowers and seed when the plant is almost dead,Birds lay extra clutches of eggs if there earlier ones have perished,you can go on so with the Snowdrop Bulb chopped to pieces certain demise but no a last trick up its sleeve with its last gasp of energy a new tiny Bulbil.
Nature is very clever more than we understand.

lol maybe I'm too wimpish, trying to tread as lightly as i can so that I don't mess up too severely. I'll have to try two troughs of bulbs, one normal and one sliced, to see what happens between them

Fran I will see how far back the original blog was mid 2011 so you can read it, there is a lot more to it than chopping them up ,
Things like Daffodils do not need cutting you would normally find they have smaller bulbs around the the original that can be easily pulled away to increase them however they would need feeding to build them up just like any other Baby.
B

thanks Bjs dear! I have noted that some bulbs grow babies off them that can be separated