robert, I'm no expert on Clivia, but I have been picking the ripe berries off my Clivia plants every time they get ripe, and they have never failed to bloom the following year. I just picked a small bowl full of seeds day before yesterday, and every plant in my greenhouse is in some stage of blooming right now. I would almost like to see my plants take a rest one year, but picking the seeds sure doesn't seem to be the way to for me to entice my plants to do that. Bill