I love that idea, Nan! I think I'll try it. I've never done any chipping/scaling, so this seems like a good opportunity. But if I get lazy, maybe I'll just follow Bob's advice and dust a little fungicide in there and hope for the best. A drainage slot does seem like a good option as well. Thanks. - Paul On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:14 AM Nan Sterman via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Here’s another idea. > > Several years ago I inherited a Drimia bulb that the owner had stuck in a > bucket of soil - it really was a bucket - it had no drainage holes. When > I got it, the soil was saturated, the bulb was saturated and I had little > hope of it surviving. I dumped out the entire mess and teh bulb broke > apart into 60 or more “scales.” I separated them, cleaned them up and > potted them all properly. All but one or two survived. > > I wonder if you might try peeling apart this bulb to divide it into scales > (kind of like the individual cloves that make up a head of garlic), and > then repot each one. It could be a fun experiment and this would be the > time to do it. > > Nan > > > On Nov 30, 2023, at 9:54 AM, Robert Lauf via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > > > Paul, > > I have had this happen to D. maritima and also occasionally to Eucomis. > If there's an active growth pushing up, you probably have little to fear, > but if you're really concerned about it, you can carefully peel back some > of the tunic around the top, see where the new sprout(s) are coming up, and > then get between them with a really sharp knife and cut a notch for the > water to drain out. > > Lastly, treating the hole with fungicide would be helpful. If you don't > have any suitable commercial fungicide, sprinkle in a bunch of cinnamon and > rub it around to coat the surface. Orchid people use cinnamon to treat > leaf rot in phals and it works great. > > Good luck! > > Bob Zone 7 Sunny and 51 deg. > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > PBS Forum latest: > https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…