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Bulbo.lobbii
Got this as a small seedling a couple years ago; it has two more
single-flowered spikes coming. I have always liked lobbii and this one is no exception. Large flowers on smallish plants, more of a sweet smell than other bulbos, but still with a hint of foulness in the background. I have been trying to add one of those pinkish ones I see pics of to my collection but never seem to be able to find one. I keep the bulbos up high in the GH for more light and greater warmth in the winter. Fortunately I can get a good look at them anytime by looking out the dining room window which overlooks the bulbo shelf attached to the outside wall just below the sill. Or of course I can get up on the inverted bucket I use as a step in the GH to get me up to the hanging plants and the upper shelves - bulbos on one side of the door, oncids and catasetinae on the other. I have just repotted all 70 or so bulbos in a mix of smallish chc and spongeroc. I felt they were staying much too wet too long in their promix-based mix, now that they'r ein a GH with more humidity than I had in the grow-rooms. I'm hoping the new mix will still keep them moist but allow for better drainage and more air. I'm also trying a few seedlings in semi-hydro. Most bulbos aren't good candidates for it as they can be very rangy plants, but things like lobbii and echinolabium and such stay relatively compact and are better candidates. |
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Bulbo.lobbii
Great picture, Tennis, and thanks for the info.
Diana "tenman" wrote in message news:6OCdnYVCrvv_ZNTVnZ2dnUVZ_tLinZ2d@wideopenwest .com... Got this as a small seedling a couple years ago; it has two more single-flowered spikes coming. I have always liked lobbii and this one is no exception. Large flowers on smallish plants, more of a sweet smell than other bulbos, but still with a hint of foulness in the background. I have been trying to add one of those pinkish ones I see pics of to my collection but never seem to be able to find one. I keep the bulbos up high in the GH for more light and greater warmth in the winter. Fortunately I can get a good look at them anytime by looking out the dining room window which overlooks the bulbo shelf attached to the outside wall just below the sill. Or of course I can get up on the inverted bucket I use as a step in the GH to get me up to the hanging plants and the upper shelves - bulbos on one side of the door, oncids and catasetinae on the other. I have just repotted all 70 or so bulbos in a mix of smallish chc and spongeroc. I felt they were staying much too wet too long in their promix-based mix, now that they'r ein a GH with more humidity than I had in the grow-rooms. I'm hoping the new mix will still keep them moist but allow for better drainage and more air. I'm also trying a few seedlings in semi-hydro. Most bulbos aren't good candidates for it as they can be very rangy plants, but things like lobbii and echinolabium and such stay relatively compact and are better candidates. |
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