I'm not sure about the question but wow, them surviving that long is amazing! Do you have the article that you read so I can read it as well ;)

I know that if they're properly takin' care of they can live indefinitely through offsets but I've never read anything about a single bulb! I've read where some think they have a short life but there are some original species bulbs in the Doran collection that are well over 50 years old!

Josh

Josh it was in one of Dad's RHS Mags....

I'll see if I can get Him to find and scan it the next time I'm over...

That sounds like a lot of trouble but I'd love to read it ;) I knew they were a lot longer lived than people give them credit for! That's so exciting to think I can be growing the same bulbs for that period of time!!!!!!

Josh

I have bulbs which have never offset and are over twenty five years old.I grew them from seed.A neighbor in her seventies grew a Rabbitsfoot fern and a red Hippeastrum together for over fourty years on her porch.
Del