Water Onion

do you think fertilizing it would help create the daughter bulbs?
 
I've had problems in the past with the bulb portion rotting and requiring some hand stripping of the layers. I was on a well at that point and the water was fairly basic in the mid 8.*'s and quite hard. Not sure which water condition was the contributing factor, maybe both.
 
well when i got it, it was rotting like you said(because lfs doesnt know how to care for plants) and all i did was make it happy and now its fine. i havent had any problems with it rotting.
 
The picture in the book has it half planted. I guess the bulb is similar to a rhizome.
 
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