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Originally Posted by Gabe15
The buds nearer the bottom of the corm are older and more developed than those nearer the top, so they will generally sprout first even if they are dormant before apical dominance is broken. For each leaf produced, there is a bud to go with it positioned above the leaf scar on the corm that could eventually turn into a sucker, so you can picture that the buds formed with the older leaves would be lower on the corm.
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Thanks, Gabe, but my comments/question was in response to Jon's statement that his stumps laying on their side (i.e., in the compost pile or whatever) usually had suckers sprout from the bottom side of the corm.