If it were me, I would unpot it and take a look at the bulbs and the roots, and check for any rot. Personally, I might separate some of the bulbs to grow them individually. I grew one of these in my garden, from a bulb I bought in the grocery store, and know they grow many offsets.

Christopher

Hello Wandering,

From a fellow NYer, I say hi & welcome. You may not know there's an Aroid Forum here at Gardenweb (Aroids are the large family of plants to which this belongs). They may have suggestions for you there as well.

Looks interesting & nice as is to me (after a quick cleanup).

I would unpot it to check it out, Around the hole you found if there are any soft or brown or otherwise "un-normal" looking tissue cut it off with an exacto knife or something very sharp like that and then apply dried, powdered cinnamon to the wound as an anti fungal. If it isn't mushy you should hold off doing anything to it

I would also leave it together but in a bigger pot with a very fast draining medium but to separate or not is up to you, there would be merits to either choice.

hey everyone,

Thank you so much for your help! I carved away the bit that was soft, put cinnamon on the wound, and repotted in a larger pot in mostly perlite... All the roots looked ok, thick, white, and healthy - the mushy part oddly stopped almost an inch above the roots... I don't know why that part would rot... but I carved it away and am hoping for the best!

Thank you again!! (Also thanks Pirate_Girl for the welcome from a fellow new yorker! :) )

Thank you all so much!

Well there's no way of telling what caused the rotting. since it was above the soil line it likely hadn't anything to do with watering but at this point there isn't a way to figure it out. Possibly an insect wound got infected or some other injury.

You may find that at some point the perlite won't be heavy enough to hold your plant up so keep in mind for the next time you repot it to try to find something heavier.

Willow, I agree with Dellis..Perlite probably won't hold the plant erect..

Could the rotting be caused by over-watering?

There's so many EE varieties. Many go dormant when days shorten. As soon as you notice yellowing leaves or halting growth, cut back or stop watering and fertilizing.

Has your EE flowered this year? Do you know its variety?
Toni