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William said: .

My single bulb, still has plenty of soil on top, but it's only planted this spring so perhaps haven't had time to surface yet. What surprised me a bit was that I didn't notice even a trace after stem roots. Yet it grew perfectly normal from what I could see. 30+ inches tall and two blooms, so didn't appear stunted in any way. So perhaps it's not supposed to have any stem roots?

I got to thinking, I better check another one to look for stem roots and just to find out if more had lifted close to the surface. Indeed, this second cluster had risen to about an inch or 2.5 cm from the surface. There was evidence of a few stem roots on one stem only. This has all the appearance of a bulb planted too shallow, yet this bulb was about the size of a quarter and planted about 4 to 5 inches deep in April of 2015. This cluster is now about 4 inches or more in diameter and produced 13 flowers on two stems this past summer. Apparently, this years scanty few stem roots did not play the major role in plant size, bud count nor in cluster development.