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Aug 2, 2022 4:07 AM CST
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Here is a photo I annotated back in 2017 show multiple noses to a family member. In this case you can see that it is in the process of dividing, but the older outer scales have not fallen apart yet. It would ready to divide the following year, once it was possible to cleanly separate the noses:

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And one of a bulb that I dug up before it died back (I think I had decided to cull this one, so used it as an example). You can see the newly-formed stem bulblets develop above the main bulb and will slowly pull themselves down to the right level. They should not be attached to the main bulb in any way - they should be obvious and easier to dig up than the main bulb:

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