[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Wait for the start of new growths, and a little longer yet until you just start to see new roots coming out of the new growths. You need to look closely at the pattern of growth. All sympodials (your plant) grow as a chain, with one or more new growths each year coming out of the previous years growth, and sometimes an older growth will also start a new growth. You want to divide the plant so that you have 3 mature growths in a row (sequential growths). Now this may actually be 4 or 5 bulbs total, because some of the growths may have started more than one growth when it was its time to start another member of the chain. My guess is that you will likely want to divide that plant into two strong divisions. If there are more than 3 mature bulbs in the chain going backward, you can remove these bulbs and try to start them as back bulbs. Spend some time counting backwards from the newest growths, and you can figure out how old each bulb is and which are the 4 and more year old bulbs that can be removed. Sometimes you will leave these bulbs with a forward section, if an older bulb produced a growth and you need the old bulbs to give that division the 3 bulb minimum. Unfortunately, Myrmecophilas often grow in such a way that it is very hard to see the pattern and you may not know for sure what the continuity is until you start to separate the pieces. If you do get backbulbs, don't separate them into individual bulbs. You will have better results with multiples connected. Good luck.

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