Tytaylor77

What I would recommend is immediately when getting these tiny tc pots get shipped to you is immediencly repot them into larger small pot with 50/50 mix of perlite. Maybe a 1/2 gal pot. When you are trying to control moisture in those tiny tiny pots it is very hard. In a larger say 1/2 gal pot the moisture would be controlled much better. The larger amount of soil will stabilize and you won't have wet and dry spots. Instead the soil will absorb the wet spot and be much better. 2nd don't go by moisture meters 100% a good tactic is to water them once per 7 days. If you really wanna know gently dig down with your finger and look for moisture.

The pot is so small the air is drying the outer part of the pot leaving a dry but the center still wet. The larger pot/more soil volume would absorb the inner wet area into its dry soil.

I would never try to break apart the TC rootball it would almost for sure kill the TC plant. I also find fertilizing TC plants does more harm than good. There is plenty in the soil to feed them unlit they get more roots and a few weeks older.

On corms it is very very risky potting up a rootless corm in any soil or soilless mix. They use no water since there is no roots. Using no water can root them very easy! Instead coarse sand works way better. It doesn't stick to the corm causing rot. And it doesn't hold hardly any moisture to cause rot. It drains extremely fast and creates the perfect environment for root development. Try it! Every 7 days check for roots. Spray the water as you pull the corm up and check for roots. Be careful not to damage New roots! When you have some roots showing then pot it up in 50/50 mix potting soil and perlite!

I have tried every method you can think of and my methods above work by far the best! I DO NOT use coarse sand in the ground or deffently not in pots! But for rooting corms there is nothing even close!

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