Oh, Oh---a little 'wrong way Corrigan' in the pot. I just KNEW it---and a little exploratory found the little stinker headed straight for a drain hole on the bottom. There we go, gotcha; now what do I do with ya. Actually not so little, about 5 inches or 15 cm long. I gently ran the stem around covering it with a little than more than a half of soil leaving a about an inch and a half of the stem exposed. I've done 3 of these in the past and what happens, is, the exposed tip will now turn vertical, green up and grow pretty much normally. A certain amount of the buried stem will also rise up but never all of it. This is a scale bulblet started in May of 2014.
If you ever get into a situation like this and don't know what end to excavate, here are a couple clues. Notice the little white ring on the stem in the first picture. Stem roots normally form below that ring, not above it. Above that ring, tiny little sacrificial leaves form along the stem as it reaches for a surface. Look for them. An inverted stem will normally bend toward the sunny, warm side of the pot and then travel down the warm side. So, with all these clues, the end you select to excavate should be almost automatic. I hope this plant forms a lot of stem roots because it obviously has expended a tremendous amount of bulb energy that it now will have to rejuvenate.
