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Originally Posted by Dalmatiansoap
So what would be minimum corm size?
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I would say the bigger the better. From the pictures you see that they used the plant with at least 20cm thick P-stem. I checked the Pahari Kela today (Pahari Kela nr3 sprouting), because it was infested with ants and I sadly found out, that they were eating the corm!!! What the f*** they dam* small F**** cratures. I had to cut the half eaten, half rotting corm and as I was cleaning it I had to peel a little. It indeed was able to produce 3 new pups (had 3 eyes with no p-stem above the soil level), but I stopped peeling, when I noticed the shooting pup. Within a few weeks (if I hadn't damaged the roots before I put it to the ground), a new pup should be sprouting. Let's hope together, that the pup will emerge eventually.
So I would say that 80 to 100cm high plant (that was the PK's height before cutting in India) gives you apx 3 eyes and
possibly 3 pups.
But there's so many other variants.
This one seems to be the riskiest. But eventually, corms cut in many parts seemed to recover just as well as p-stem cut in the middle.