Cannas: HELP! Cannas too big to get out of pots, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Thank you all! We used a shovel to get it out of the pot. We actually realized that we had so many sections that we could afford to sacrifice some. The pot (yes,Voss, it IS a nice one!) is rounded, so the little guys expanded in the middle, and the middle was wider than the top. That's why we couldn't slide it out.

In any case, we got the two sections out, and realized that we have LOTS of sections. The contents of the pot, in two large portions with many rhyzomes, is now on the floor of the basement.

Voss, would you advise on the next step? Do we rinse the sections , and then divide them, and then dry them, or should it be done in a different order?

Do give you a sense of why I was so incredulous, here is what they looked like in mid-March.