Bulbophyllum repotting

[PuiPuiMolcar]

Note to self, always check for bush snail whenever you buy potted plant from Andy's.
I thought I've gotten better at repotting but this one wreck me. Probably the smelliest repotting I've ever done. There were three rotting bulb beneath the media, one of them exploded in green goo as I pulled them out. But that was the least of the problem because the way this orchid grow doesn't really give me much room to work with. It looks like will just grow out of the pot within the next growth so I dont really know if I should give it a wider pot or should I just mount it?

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Bulbos have very short roots. Some have long distances between pseudobulbs. A low and wide dish-like pot, or a basket, work well for them.

Coffee kills bush snails. Use the Search in the top menu to find threads on that topic.

[Rothrock42]

For most of my bulbos I use those sturdy plastic water catching saucers that you put under pots. I use a soldering iron to melt a bunch of drain holes in the bottom (do this with good ventilation), but you could drill them as well.

And then I use coconut husk chips and some chopped up sphagnum moss as the media.

This makes it pretty easy to provide a comparatively large surface area without having to have waste a lot of media filling a deeper pot. And the saucers come in several different sizes which I try and coordinate with how large the plant is and/or how inclined it is to scramble.

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Rothrock42's method is a good idea.

I don't have as much time to water as I would like. I pot some of my Bulbos in low dish type containers without drain holes. I put a layer of LECA at the bottom, then sphagnum moss over the top. I fill with rain water then dump it out so there is a reservoir touching the moss, but the roots are not into the water.

I also grow them in a similar setup, but modified S/H. I use a deeper but still wide container with drain holes about an inch from the base. I fill with LECA to just past the drain holes, then sphagnum moss.

Which method I use depends on how deep is the container. When possible I like to save and recycle plastic containers and lids to use as pots rather than discarding them.

[PuiPuiMolcar]

thank you all for the suggestion, I will definitely get those saucers to use. I have one question, is it ok to stake bulbophyllum vertically instead of lay it down horizontally? since I'm growing this one in the tent, I'm trying to save some ground space for other orchids.

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Originally Posted by PuiPuiMolcar

...is it ok to stake bulbophyllum vertically instead of lay it down horizontally? since I'm growing this one in the tent, I'm trying to save some ground space for other orchids.

I'm not clear what you mean. Do you mean mounted on a piece of wood? They can grow that way but it is harder to give them enough water. They are wet growing orchids that prefer never to dry out.