Help!!! Bulbophyllum playing King of the Hill...
I have had a bulbophyllum for 2 months and the psuedobulb growths are piling
on top of each other and strangling themselves. They WERE in a 3 inch pot, but I have tried to rescue (but probably didn't need to) and I am trying to figure out what kind of potting arrangement would be best to get the type of configuration I want. I saw a "specimen plant" of these at the same JOS that I "acquired" mine. The plant was growing in a big circle around the outside of a container about 9 to 12 inches across. The grower didn't have problems with the plant climbing itself or trying to crawl out of the container. Any suggestions to getting a "well-behaved" bulbo ;-) would be appreciated. TIA!!! *Don't know who the original grower was to be able to ask them now :-( -- Fran Kirby Jacksonville, Florida |
Help!!! Bulbophyllum playing King of the Hill...
I grow four bulbophyllums, Daisy Chain, Vaginatum, Lasicilum and Makoyanum.
I got them about two months ago while on vacation in Hawaii. The vaginatum was sulking for a bit but eventually recovered. With the exception of the makoyanum they all grow in different ways. The daisy chain is in a wooden basket suspended in my bathroom where it's getting defused light and the roots are covered (very very loosely) with sphagnum moss. The vaginatum is mounted on a piece of pine :), the roots are wrapped in sphangum moss as well. The lasicilum is mounted on cork with the roots loosely covered with sphagnum. All are in the bathroom and are suspended on chains that are hooked to the ceiling. I mist them all twice a day, they get western difused exposure, the rest of the moisture comes from the family using the facility. In two months since I've brought them home, they grew into their new media and are displaying new growth all over including crazy hair like roots! Chet from Wilks Orchid in Hawaii told me that bulbophyllums will grow out of control and out of their pots (if you grow them in pots), and that it isn't anything to be alarmed about, and that to get a bulb to behave is quite unreasonable :). BTW- the fourth bulb the makoyanum is in a 3" extra deep clay pot, with no potting media at all, this is how I brought it from Hawaii where it was grown that way. The roots have filled the pot and the plant has grown out of the pot and all around the clay! Now lets see if I can make them flower :) Good luck to you, Mariana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fran Kirby" Newsgroups: rec.gardens.orchids Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 8:54 PM Subject: Help!!! Bulbophyllum playing King of the Hill... I have had a bulbophyllum for 2 months and the psuedobulb growths are piling on top of each other and strangling themselves. They WERE in a 3 inch pot, but I have tried to rescue (but probably didn't need to) and I am trying to figure out what kind of potting arrangement would be best to get the type of configuration I want. I saw a "specimen plant" of these at the same JOS that I "acquired" mine. The plant was growing in a big circle around the outside of a container about 9 to 12 inches across. The grower didn't have problems with the plant climbing itself or trying to crawl out of the container. Any suggestions to getting a "well-behaved" bulbo ;-) would be appreciated. TIA!!! *Don't know who the original grower was to be able to ask them now :-( -- Fran Kirby Jacksonville, Florida |
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