Della, I have seen what you are talking about, too, where if a plant is traumatized, it forms bulbils just below the point of injury. I happen to see it on a few of those I disbud. Hank indicates he started his experiment soon after all the buds had formed. So, that coincides. I now can add another observation that may to be somewhat relevant to the irrelevant. The cultivars that produce an abundance of underground bulblets also have the greatest tendency to form bulbils at the leaf axil close to where the injury has occurred. But since those cultivars produce an abundance of stem bulblets for reproduction purposes normally, they are of no value to Hank's experiment other than to verify the likelihood that stem bulbils do occur close and directly below the injury or disbudding. It also seems to support, to a considerable extent, that the optimum time to apply the experiment is as soon as all the buds have formed into a bud head and that the most appropriate test subjects are those that reproduce slowly by natural means.
