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Originally Posted by estación seca
Congratulations on a great achievement!
I spoke with Ben Ooi at length at the 2018 Tamiami show about this plant. He may be the person you bought this from. I'll repeat here what he said. The only bigger ones he had were pre-ordered so I went home with a very small one. I was away from home at the show for a week, and think I wasn't able to keep it wet enough during that week, so it died soon after I got home.
The plant rhizome in habitat grows spiraling upward around tree trunks, as can be seen in your plant. The rhizomes are very long between the pseudobulbs. The leaves are very large, paddle shaped and extremely stiff, like wood. They trap large amounts of falling leaf debris and form mounds against the tree trunk. The roots from the base of the pseudobulbs grow up into these debris mounds, where the debris is always wet from frequent rains. In this way a plant with the absolute requirement for wet roots can survive occasional rainless spells during the drier season.
Ben said it should be hot and wet at all times. He told me 40% relative humidity is too low for this plant, and 60% should be considered the very minimum. His growing conditions are hot and humid.
He grows them for sale is on coco fiber-stuffed cylinders made of vinyl-coated wire fencing. The roots can grow into the always-wet coco fiber and then don't need to grow up into the litter trapped against the leaf. The plant quickly outgrows this wire cylinder and needs something else to climb on. He said a customer grows it successfully on a long tree fern trunk standing always in a bucket of water, in a hot and wet greenhouse.
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It's not Ooi Leng and I knew Ben. I bought all of my previous beccarii s from him and all of them died. This guy sell his plant pressed flat inside a clear plastic bags which is not a good way to sell an orchid plants. I just crossed my fingers hoping I can revive a very expensive and exotic plant. My wife got so mad when I told her how much I paid for it. She predicted it will die within a week, but miracle happened. Thank you for the comments.
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Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts
i have to find this plant!
google is bringing me nothing. Do you recall the vendor you purchased it from?
i hate the "call and ask" routine but i might get there if i keep looking at these pics!!
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It is not Ooi Leng from Ben. This guy was fairly new in Redland Orchid Show. All of his plants was pressed flat inside a clear cellophane/plastic bag without any media. You will be scare thinking these plants will die when you pressed it inside the plastic bag without media and ventilation. They are all looks like a preserved specimen plants collected by a botanist. His pricing is a little expensive for a beginner vendor. I also bough another rare bulbophyllum that I have never seen before. I will wait until I get it to bloom. Thank you for the comments