I thank you all. I waited till today to respond to you, it has been over 10 days since I made my purchase. so now an update. I show no refund any where so I have just e-mailed him and told him he has the money. the last set of e-mails from him has been asking for a good rating. ... as far as the pup is concerned it still looks like a cypress knot. it has been turning a little blacker so I grabbed a large tray and started dumping out the potting soil from around it. it has lots of white roots coming from it 3 to 4 inches long [kinda looks like a porcupine] it was still firm. I was running just a hair high in moisture so mixed in some drier potting soil and filled it back in. so we will see what we see.

thank you for your advice. pukpukz the last batch of corms are coming up nicely thank you.