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wallaby1 wrote:
It depends a lot on the size of your bulb, if it's fairly small then a 6" pot is fine for at least the first year for one bulb. Bear in mind that they will increase, and I leave mine in pots in a cold greenhouse for winter, they really are best not dried. I potted mine on for 3 of years, but they were small for a start, ending up in a large pot.

The big ones I got from them are bigger than any I have seen, to 3.5" across and deep. They had long roots too, I repotted the extras in smaller cut flower buckets I get cheap from the supermarket. They are probably 9" diam and 10" deep, the roots wrapping around the sides at that.

Cameo corms from one, this did take a few years as the first winter was very cold and only one new corm lived out of 4 made, it was fairly small.