When buying bare root anything, the purpose is not to get the existing plants to grow but to get them to grow new plants from their base. That takes time. When selecting the bare bulbs you look for the best new buds starting or potentially starting to grow from the older pbulbs. Those are the future of your plants. How were the bare root pbulbs offered? Wrapped in paper/cloth, or bare laying in a box? How dry were the existing roots? Can make a difference. All you care about are the potential buds on the existing pbulbs. I have kept them viable a number of ways until the new buds grew. In nature plants fall from trees and lay on the ground where they continue to produce new plants and flowers until they are eaten. One way is to wrap them in spagnum moss with string or wire and keep them moist. Not wet but just damp. Another way is to pot them up in bark/spong rock and water them occasionally. The old pbulbs will not grow new roots and the leaves will begin to fall over or wither. Don't worry. New growth will emerge when it is time and there is plenty of starch/water in the old pbulbs to grow them to maturity when they will put out roots of their own. On the smaller specimens the smaller pbulbs are the oldest. Again unless they were cared for very well, they are slowly dying and their purpose is to produce new growth. None of these will flower but I have seen many times the new pbulbs when they mature, flower. I have even wrapped and grown bareroot pbulbs in burlap and the new growth was great. Remember that catts are normally epiphyts that grow bare root on tree limbs and limestone cliffs. They are tougher than we are. Usually when we lose them it is because we tried to do too much for them and killed them with kindness.
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