| 1. | The mother bulb is planted with most of its girth above the soil line.
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| 2. | The name pregnant onion is appropriate, since tiny bulbs appear on the mother bulb.
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| 3. | After flowering, the mother bulb is exhausted, dies and gives up its food reserves to its daughter bulbs.
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| 4. | Food energy is devoted to producing a flower and to growing these daughters, not to the survival of the mother bulb.
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| 5. | When it's time to divide the lilies, remove any loose scales from the mother bulbs, and plant them.
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| 6. | Some species, such as the Uruguayan " Hippeastrum petiolatum ", are reproduces asexually, producing many bulbils around the mother bulb.
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| 7. | The plant gets it name by producing little offsets about the size of peas under the skin of the mother bulb that sits above the soil.
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| 8. | It doesn't breed true from seed, so it can be propagated only from offsets, or little bulblets forming on the mother bulb.
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| 9. | It was happy and multiplied, although unlike their white-flowered mother bulb, the baby bulbs have gone native, sending up bright red blooms.
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| 10. | By the time it flowers, the mother bulb is ready to die, giving whatever resources it has left to the daughter bulbs, but unequally.
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