Echinolabium - growth or spike?

[Dezherae17]

Originally Posted by estación seca

I decided to try some Bulbos last fall. I bought a couple bare root, a couple mounted and two potted. I mounted the bare-root ones. I watered them when they started getting close to dry.

They didn't grow well at all. Several began growing new shoots, which soon turned black and soft. I lost two that were supposed to be "Easy."

I was browsing Orchid Board to figure out why. I found glowing reviews for a book:
Bulbophyllums: The Incomplete Guide; From A to WHY? by Bill Thoms

I bought the book. Bill says he heavily soaks all his plants very frequently, because Bulbos appear to take up water slower than other orchids. He grows nothing on mounts because they do so much better in shallow, wet baskets. He has side-by-side photos of divisions of plants to prove it. There is a lot more, but this is the main thing I was doing wrong.

I strongly recommend the book. It cost a lot less than the plants I was about to kill, but now appear to be turning the corner.

I might add - B. echinolabium comes from Sulawesi and Borneo, where it probably rains only twice a day in the dry season.

Bill has a nursery and can be found at
Bulbophyllums.com

I would love that book!😃

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Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

I didn't take one today but I will post tomorrow. I hope at least one of us has a spike.

Fingers crossed😃✌🏻️✌🏻✌🏻

[My Green Pets]

B. echinolabium comes from Sulawesi and Borneo, where it probably rains only twice a day in the dry season.

Well that shoots down my 'dry conditions' theory!

[Dezherae17]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

Well that shoots down my 'dry conditions' theory!

Yea bulbos love being wet constantly🙂

[My Green Pets]

Growth numero uno


Growth numero dos

[Dezherae17]

Thats a spike Cambriawhat!😃

[Dezherae17]

So im now positive ive got a new growth. Which doesn't bother me id really want my chid to fill out a bit. Plus! Theres another eye growing😃😃

[My Green Pets]

Mine too, I think both are new pseudobulbs.

Ok. My new strategy is to illuminate the shit out of this plant. I am moving it into higher light.

[Dezherae17]

Mine doesn't get too much light. You know what you can do as ive done it before? Candle the growth like a chicken egg. Any progress with the growth though?? Photos?

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Cambriawhat just did some stuff bout an hour ago. Pulled off a bad pseudobulb and stuffed some moss in there. And collected some rainwater😃 And this is what i meant by candling🙂

[My Green Pets]

I'm on vacation this week. Bye bye orchids lol but I'm still checking this forum

[Dezherae17]

Lucky duck. Ive never been on vacation so my plants are my little piece of the tropics