bushwack

I over wintered my Orinoco's bare rooted in my garage this winter with a lot of dirt still on the corm ball. (was very wet when digging them up), I've been trying to get them ready to go back in the ground. after removing all the dry hardened dirt I found that what looks like, that when I separated the pups from the mother (before digging up the mother) I didn't get close enough to the mother corm. ( my first year for doing this).

There are what is left of the pup corm still attached to the mother corm. most of them are at the bottom or very near the bottom of the mother corm and coming up the side of the mother.
They will snap off of the mother corm easily and leave me with like a small corm like bulb.(don't know if they would grow or not if planted )
my question is ,,
should I snap them off or leave them attached when replanting?

also should I trim off all the thin stringy roots from the mother before planting?

I have some pics if needed, hard to see what i'm talking about from the pics,, hopefully some one will know what i'm trying to explain

looks to me if I leave them attached and they try to grow it will produce a big pup to start with,(don't necessarily need this) and/ or take some nutrients from the mother.
If they don't grow they may rot and cause some rotting of the mother corm

Snap them off or leave them???

Thanks in advance