piabaDoug Westfall piabinha@yahoo.com11111Claiborne Dr. Long Beach, CA > while unpotting my Veltheimia, i pulled the bulb out > of the pot and broke it off the basal disk. so now i > have a bulb with lots of leaves but no roots and a > basal disk in the pot. will either or one of them > sprout again? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I am not an "espert," but if you broke off the complete "basal plate," I think that you have lost it. Doug Westfall