Found this yesterday:
Was surprised to see that the bulbil had actually sent up three leaves! This is one of my mixed Asiatic and LA hybrid baby bulbs from Golden Ray Gardens, so until it flowers I won't know which cultivar it is. I suspect I have two of this particular cultivar, though, as one of the others has behaved exactly the same way (a single bulbil at the top of a non-flowering stem with several stem bulblets growing well at the base of the stem). Will be interesting to see what it is next year.
My question for the moment is - do I leave it till the main stem dies, or detach it and pot it up now?
In other bulbil news, I have found a few more. I will have to wait until next year to see how they behave - this may not be their normal behaviour, especially as it is the first year after planting.
- Four out of the five 'Tresor' stems have a bulbil near the top. All five flowered. One of my attempts to set seed appears to have worked and intriguingly, this is on one of the stems with a bulbil. The one stem without a bulbil has two failed pods on it.
- The Tonkin hybrid 'Rascal' has two tiny bulbils approx. two-thirds the way up on one stem. Both 'Rascal' plants flowered, but I was only successful in setting seed on one; the other failed for some unknown reason and it is the one with the bulbils.
- The Tonkin hybrid 'Show Off' (not the 'Showoff' in the RHS register, by the way) has a large bulbil at the top of the non-flowering stem.
- One of four non-flowering 'Mapira' stems has a bulbil at the top.
- One of two non-flowering 'Whiskey' stems has a bulbil near the top.
