Re: Is this normal?
I was really hoping for a 30" diameter. Wanted to see that.
Each plant, parent, or pup has it's own corm. The corm is the actual plant. What you see sticking above the soil are leaves which "sprout" from the corm. The various corms are physically connected, but if you sever that connection, and there was only one corm, then the pups would not survive and grow.
Pups and younger plants seem to take the cold better in a lot of cases, while the parent plant, which is bigger or more mature, seems to be more susceptible to cold. I do not know why, just observe it. I have several varieties that behave that way, which in some cases means that I have lots of pups, but never get a parent to survive long enough to flower and fruit.
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