Your bulbo looks great. Just wait until it is fully open, you will really be excited then. I love bulbos even if a few of them are a bit stinky.

Dorothy, that bell jar sounded like a great idea.....until I looked at the price.

That's a great picture. I am VERY impressed. I have that exact one and can't wait for it to bloom.

Yes, I've heard it's a bad stinker. . .but so what? All you have to do is move it into the guest bedroom for a while. . .with our without the cloche, depending on whether or not you actually have any guests.

Isn't that what we all decided? *evil snicker*

There are less expensive bell jars out there .. I can go through my favorites for you and look - just say the word :)
Just to throw it out there - I wouldn't leave a bell jar on an orchid for any extended period of time (maybe a few hours a day or night) .. most orchids need air circulation and unless the bell jar has some holes at the top or bottom .. it's ain't getting it ;)


Gwen - or put it in the bathroom .. :coverlaugh:
Or just blame the dog! :rofl:

I wasn't turned off at all by the odor. It was only even noticed by my wife once! That was fun. Just further illustration of the specialization of these wonders! :twocents:

The local college had a flowering Titan Arum or 'corpse flower' blooming a few years ago. It's billed as the largest inflorescence in the world! It smelled foul, but you kept smelling it! Pretty similar smells, actually. The giant Amorphophallus was just much stronger!

then it is fine :) I have Amorphophallus konjac and the odour is tolerable (even though strong!)

I have a cirrhopetalum elizabeth ann buckleberry
that I have had for 3 years, it blooms once a year and it has never had any scent to it, in fact it is blooming tight now.

Try smelling it at different times of the day, and at different levels of maturity. Like I said, it is kind of faint, but it was odoriferous enough for a passer by to notice it.

All I have to say is ... :faint: