I am sending these to someone & I need to know how to treat them please. I know nothing. Act like I'm a baby learning to walk. Do I leave these to dry? Do I put them in the fridge? It will be a couple/few days before I send them. Do I wrap them in moist paper towel?

There were 2 of these & this is what came out when I dug them up. Do I throw away the stalks with the roots on them or will they live? I assume I take the remaining bulb off the one stalk.

To mail them, do I wrap them in dry shredded newspaper?

Thanks in advance!

Dear Ann,

Just throw away what seems dead (stalks and old leaves, but go easy on any roots). Wrapping them in newspaper seems fine -- damp won't hurt as long as they don't stay in that long enough to mold. Ours start putting out roots this time of year, and then just sit there through the winter, but you don't have winter, so probably they will start growing and keep growing (I should probably just let someone from Florida answer you that part!) But the bulbs look fine -- they do die down after they bloom in the spring/early summer.

Go with God.
Mother Raphaela

Thank you so much! They are going to Pittsburg so they will dwell in the cold. No more sissy Fl. weather for them.
They did die down & I did at least know that much about them although nothing else. That's why I waited till now to dig them up.