Rhizome shape question

I'm curious as to what a rhizome should look like. In February, i got two rhizomes from my LHBS - Nuggett & Willamette - and planted in mid-March. The Nugget rhizome looked like how you'd expect a plant bulb to look - kind of plump, odd shapped with sprouts about it. However, the nugget looked, literally, like a twig - no sprouts, straight, "bark-y" and about 1/4" diameter.

My Nugget has got a couple shoots broken through in the past week, but i've got no growth that i can find (with some light digging) from the Willamette. Did my LHBS screw me in giving me an immature, or improperly cut rhizome? I never thought they would/should look like a straight twig.

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I got a cascade rizhome from freshops, it just looked like a 6" long stick with a couple of buds on it that reminded me of eyes on a potatoe. It's been in the planter now for about a month and I only have 1 shoot that came up.

I've had ones that look like twigs, they grew just fine. You still could have gotten a couple bad ones though.

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I received one that was broken in the middle and it's growing good.