Ok, great. And I promise to take some pictures tonight.
I stopped at my parents house last night. I had given my mom around 8 stems as well. I should have given them some guidance because they cut the bottoms off maybe an inch after I had already dried them out then just put them outside in pots in their screen porch. They had been there probably a month. It was 45 degrees this weekend. We pulled them out and half were rotted and the other half still seemed firm. I told her to just put the good ones somewhere dry for the winter.