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bonitin wrote:
I would very much appreciate your opinion about these L.nepalense I received on the 24th march from VanTubergen, Netherlands.
In my eyes they look dried out , badly damaged on the outer scales and have some blue mold.
They did not answer my repeated emails to them telling how badly they were looking until today I finally got a reply;

She says that L.nepalense always look that way, brown and looking as if they are no good, that a little blue mold shouldn't have an influence on the development of the plant. Only if they would feel very soft they would be lost. Now the bulbs didn't feel firm but kind of withered and dried out, not completely soft though, but no growing point was visible.
I don't have a good feeling about these bulbs and don't feel like paying for them. They probably don't have any better looking ones as she doesn't go into the subject of sending me other ones like I requested..
I had ordered last year some L.martagon var.albiflorum from them and none have come up, they looked in a similar bad state.
What do you think?