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Old 01-23-2019, 12:04 AM
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Thanks everyone for the great advice! I was a bit worried between cold weather and the possibility of water getting caught in the bracts that it could rot. But I just remembered that I have a fan running and it's relatively warm in here, so I'll be sure to water the sides of the pseudobulbs with a nice warm sprinkle in the kitchen sink next time I water.
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I have one as well, and from June to October it's outside, where it gets drenched and rained on. The rest of the year it's inside, and it spends the winter our spare bedroom, which is a bit cooler and I don't have any choice other than soaking it. Drenching it would drench the room as well. The bulbs do shrivel up each winter despite regular watering, but that and being indoors so long doesn't stop it from blooming well!

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That's a beautiful plant!
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That's a beautiful plant!
It truly is. I just got one of these that is adorable but tiny compared to that! It's got about ten little bulbs and a almost as many tiny leaves starting new bulbs. Is there a rule of thumb for how many bulbs you need for it to consider blooming?
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It truly is. I just got one of these that is adorable but tiny compared to that! It's got about ten little bulbs and a almost as many tiny leaves starting new bulbs. Is there a rule of thumb for how many bulbs you need for it to consider blooming?
I've had this plant for 8 years now, and it was a small plant with only a couple growths of 2-3 bulbs each. I know that they can bloom off really small plants since I've seen some before, but mine started blooming progressively. I don't think I saw any blooms at all the first 3 years, produced 2 the first time, and has been increasing since. Last year I counted over 40. It could be my conditions that weren't ideal, I noticed that the plant really took off when I started leaving it in full sun all day, all summer (in the netherlands, so far north), and then leaving it in a south window in the winter in a cool room.

As a note, you can manipulate the plant shape via pot size to some extent. The wider the pot, the more it will spread out. If you keep it in a smaller/narrower pot it tends to grow upwards instead.
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Yours is stunning, it looks like a gorgeous spider plant almost!
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I have one as well, and from June to October it's outside, where it gets drenched and rained on. The rest of the year it's inside, and it spends the winter our spare bedroom, which is a bit cooler and I don't have any choice other than soaking it. Drenching it would drench the room as well. The bulbs do shrivel up each winter despite regular watering, but that and being indoors so long doesn't stop it from blooming well!

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