Schmuel, As other posters have noted, you should have a new shoot soon enough. I think the growing stem actually produces one or more branches inside the bulb which remain dormant unless the rest of the axis is damaged. I had a bulb grow in this fashion. The "second chance" branch will not likely be as large as the initial one. -|<ipp ________________________________ From: pbs <pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Monica Swartz <eciton@utexas.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:38 AM To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [pbs] Boweia volubilis emergency! Hi Shmuel, don't worry, your Boweia is fine. In some growing areas, B. volubilis will keep making the vining flower stalks all year. In others, it takes a short rest in the winter. B. volubilis is a very tough plant. You can even take off chunks of the fleshy bulb scales, bury them shallow, and you will soon have a bunch of baby offsets (this does not work with B. gariepensis, winter-growing and much fussier). Hope this helps. m