| The roots are very important, so if the growth with the roots has slowed down, just be patient. The term bud is not appropriate. 'Growing eye' would be good to use, or 'growth' is a good term, but bud is reserved for the early stage of a flower. If the eye at the oldest bulb started to grow but then turned off, you may want to consider using a hormone to kick it into growth again. Tomatoe set, preferably with kenetin, but Tomatoe set with indole-3-p... will probably also work. Just spray the eye every so often until it starts again, but stop as soon as it starts, or it wont produce any roots. I would wait for the forward bulb a little longer to start a growth. It sounds like the plant suddenly decided it wasn't the right season yet to grow and maybe it will change its mind yet.
If this goes on for some time, you may want to use the hormones on a forward eye, but just one, but it can get a little out of control if you are too free with the hormone, and you don't want to use it on any of the other eyes. You might inspect the eyes on the forward bulb to make sure there is nothing wrong with them. Fungus in the pot can sometimes burn the eyes and ruin their viability.
I think I would probably have cut the rhyzome leaving 5 growths in a row, as this makes for a good support for the forward bulb.
But if you got more growths than just one, you have a very good result from your cutting.
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