Bulbophyllum medley

[Rick]

Here's a few that looked too nice to ignore.


B. bandishii

B. orthoglosum (very stinky)

B patens (smells like cloves/pumpkin pie)

B. blumei

 

[Chicago Chad]

That bandischii is really sweet. Does your plant ramble all over?

 

[Carkin]

Nice bulbo's! Thank you for including the "fragrance" description too.

 

[Migrant13]

Those are weirdly cool. Interesting fragrance assortment too.

 

[SlipperFan]

Cool. Are you growing these in baskets, also?

 

[Rick]

That bandischii is really sweet. Does your plant ramble all over?

Yes, long rambling stolons. Kind of weird that best growth is on the shady facing direction, but most of the flowering is on the bright side of the basket with the worst looking growth. If things go like last year, it won't quit blooming till the end of October.

PS I have some good looking frostii pics to share soon too.

 

[Rick]

Cool. Are you growing these in baskets, also?

Yes Dot.

I've been keeping 90% of my Bulbos mounted or in baskets long before I started doing it for slippers. Most of my early potted Bulbos did pretty crappy. A couple like my mandibulare and a recent dearei acquisition are still potted and doing very well. I have a couple of cruentum, one is doing well and the other struggling in pots. Low K pulled one out of its doldrums but not the older of the two.

There's also a fair number that started in pots, but overgrew the pots into the baskets I hung them in before I got around to getting them out of their original pots. So occasionally you can still find an old clay or plastic pot buried in the basket.

 

[eaborne]

Neat!

 

[SlipperFan]

Thanks, Rick. They probably grow better in baskets than mounted.

 

[Rick]

Thanks, Rick. They probably grow better in baskets than mounted.

May be somewhat species specific on that difference.
In general mounted or basket the Bulbos in general have been very responsive to K reduction.

But several plants on mounts are totally out of control. And some of the baskets have so little media of any type, they might as well be considered mounted anyway.

 

[Paphman910]

Nice!

 

[Trithor]

Very cool assortment and nice pictures. I must get a bit more variation into my bulbo collection (very mainstream at the moment)

 

[Rick]

Here's the frostii





It just keeps putting up more spikes too.

 

[SlipperFan]

Talk about little slippers!