Well, this surely was an adventure in scaling if there ever was one. I was planning to get a few scales off some purchased Anaconda bulbs today and as I was pruning their roots, I noticed this one had a spoiled basil. The scales were solid, with almost no spoil, so instead of a few scales as planned, I ended up doing the entire bulb--salvaging what I could. This required more mix than I had made up as planned so I had to scurry up a batch. Then I found out I had the wrong freezer bags (the pleated sauce bags instead of the regular style); had to run for more gallon size bags. I already had a Moonlight and a Longiflourum Henri cross scaled out when this one threw me a curve. I had several projects going at the same time so the whole day was fast pace helter-skelter. These were trimmed free of spoil, rinsed in distilled water, dried for two hours, given a shake and bake dusting with Captan and double decked in one gallon size freezer bags--24 or so to a bag (already had 6 scales from the other Anacondas before I discovered this).
The average person would never have caught this 'bad bulb'. In fact, had I not trimmed the roots and popped off a couple scales--I probably wouldn't have caught it either, it was so well hidden and perfectly dry and still solid! But it would have failed in the garden. You might say this lucky bulb died and went to heaven--it has now been given new life. Good thing it ended up here!
