O what a catastrophe !!! I hope this helps you & others... I have had this happen to Brunsvegia Josephinae crosses too, after repeated goat attacks & with heavy spring rains at the same time. The little buggers !... I am predominantly an organic gardener, but have some prior experiance in the field of rots from my wholesale nursery days. I always keep some Fungarid handy for emergancies, so i used that. It is a systemic fungaside 250g/kg FURALAXYL it targets dampening off & root rots caused by Pythium & Phytophthopra & i also found it successful with Rhizoctonia amongst other things. I have saved commersial batches of several thousand plants at a time, in rows that 100 plants a night would die, so it has well & truly proven its self to me. Mine grew a whole new centre almost from the outside in, it took forever though. The same thing happened with a beautiful pastel pink Belladonna & i was sure it was done for, i could stick my whole thumb inside it, same treatment & it threw a bunch of offsets & then after the second season it grew a new centre the whole time it held water like a cup but was healthy inside so it did not rot again. If i thought i was going to loose any of my cantelabra lilies i would try anything, fungicide, sulphur dusting, cleaning, i have even been known to scrup out really bad rots in deep wounds with a cut down tooth brush dipped in dilute chlorine, then rinse with water & fungicide, the sweet little Bandicoots cause the wounds by mistake ( Bandicoot a little forest animal about the size of a cat that love digging deep down beside bulbs to find grubs & worms) a few of them can dig hundreds of fist size holes in a night, most people would hate that but i use them to my advantage & roughly scrape mulch soil or sand into the holes & the water penetration is excellent, the bulbs flourish thanks to the little critters. I bet my last remedy raises an eyebrow ! I hope there is no other organic gardeners watching, i can here them whispering "chlorine" what was he thinking he he :-) But now days i usually leave it to byodiversity & i rarely ever have any problems unless it is a byproduct of something like a goat attack....My gardens are ritch with organic material which i till over regularly & the worm & bacterial & fungal growth is excellent, my bulbs grow like crazy ! I really hope u are successful in saving your bulb, it still looks very savable to me. Steven Hart, Esk Sub tropical Queensland Australia On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Ken <kjblack@pacbell.net> wrote: > I discovered some rot in the upper old leaf bases of this Brunsvigia > josephinae. It bloomed in August and September this year ... and we had a > freak heavy rainstorm then followed by warm weather ... which I suspect is > responsible for this rot. Any suggestions on treatment? Sulphur? A > fungicide? > >