The number of scaly leaves did not change between day 168
and day 231 and scaly leaves were easily broken from the tip of the
scale (Fig. 1D, data not presented). Thus, the transition from bulbils
to bulblets or bulbs may be completed, inducing shoots to emerge.
Days to shoot emergence was influenced by the pre-potting bulbils
storage temperature. The earliest shoot emergence, from 228 to 242
days (mean of 234 days), was obtained in SEQ CD and the latest in
CON 40 CD (Table 7). Days from leaf emergence to shoot emergence
ranged from 139 to 147 days when bulbils received SEQ CD.
When bulbils received CON 40 CD, at least 175 days was required
from leaf emergence to shoot emergence. The earliest flowering
occurred in 327 days when bulbils received SEQ CD followed by
10 ◦C after potting the bulbils and HID treatment after scaly leaf
emergence. From shoot emergence to flowering and from visible
buds to flowering took, in general, from 90 to 100 days and 33 to
35 days, respectively. Except for bulbils that received CON 40 CD,
growing bulbils for two weeks after potting at 10 ◦C accelerated
flowering by a few days. Although this was not a significant difference,
perhaps flowering could be accelerated if the 10 ◦C treatment
duration could be extended or given at different stages of growth
and development