My Bulbo's - Orchid Board

TOMMYMIAMI · #1 10-13-2013, 04:32 PM

I decided today that I want a piece of my Bulbo rosary beads outside mounted on round tree fern slab, just because it will look cool, so I did it. When taking the pic, I took also few of my other Bulbo's, I know few people asked me before hod do I grow them or mount them. So here are newly mounted rosary beads, also, rufinum in big plastic basket, than ambrosia mounted on nice cork slab, shirley and sheryl kurizaky in small plastic baskets, my gorgeous medusae also in plastic, and small pardalotum I purchased just few months ago from Seattle Orchids and mounted on the tree fern slab. All happy with our Florida humid weather. I keep all Bulbo's pretty much moist at all times, when mounted I do use cork slabs or tree fern, when in baskets I use mix of small bark chips and sphagnum, medusae is in straight sphagnum for some 2 years and seems it is loving it! I recently got another 5 new Bulbos in my Thailand package, but the condition they arrived is not great, and so I do not post pics till they will recover, I hope:-)

Bud · #2 10-13-2013, 07:51 PM

They all look happy and healthy ! Good growing !

HighSeas · #3 10-13-2013, 11:22 PM

Lovely growing! I'm slowly turning into a Bulbo freak myself.

Love your mounts!

TOMMYMIAMI · #4 10-14-2013, 12:04 AM

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They all look happy and healthy ! Good growing !

Thanks Bud, yes, I must say I did struggle with quite a few species but Bulbo's love me and my balcony, especially because they are impossible to over water and that's what I love the most about them:-)

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Originally Posted by HighSeas

Lovely growing! I'm slowly turning into a Bulbo freak myself.

Love your mounts!

Thanks HighSeas, I do play with mounts more and more, trying to do different types, different ways. When I was in California, I got quite a few interesting small branches and also lot of Chola wood, which looks amazing as well, and with all little holes it is perfect for small orchids, so there will be more mounts with that one now:-)

tuvoc · #5 10-14-2013, 09:58 AM

Good looking plants. Wish I had better luck with these guys.

Kim

TOMMYMIAMI · #6 10-14-2013, 12:49 PM

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Originally Posted by tuvoc

Good looking plants. Wish I had better luck with these guys.

Kim

hi Kim, and many thanks. May I ask how do you grow yours? I find Bulbo's actually to be the "easier one" to grow, if you provide conditions they need, the most important for most is to keep them constant wet. Maybe with a few tips you can try again, they are really not so hard to grow!

kindrag23 · #7 10-18-2013, 11:25 AM

COOL! I love it! I do like me some NICE smelling bulbos bahahaha. Very nice job Tommy.

RandomGemini · #8 10-18-2013, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by kindrag23

COOL! I love it! I do like me some NICE smelling bulbos bahahaha. Very nice job Tommy.

Whereas, I like the stinky ones. I really need to find a list of these, because the idea of having foul smelling flowers in my house is really attractive to me and I have no idea why. As long as the odor doesn't stink up the entire house, I think my husband will be ok with it though, so I'm gonna go with it. He might even think that it's "cool." LOL!

Good growing! Thanks for sharing the pics!

TOMMYMIAMI · #9 10-18-2013, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RandomGemini

Whereas, I like the stinky ones. I really need to find a list of these, because the idea of having foul smelling flowers in my house is really attractive to me and I have no idea why. As long as the odor doesn't stink up the entire house, I think my husband will be ok with it though, so I'm gonna go with it. He might even think that it's "cool." LOL!

Good growing! Thanks for sharing the pics!

I know everyone writes about different Bulbo smells, but as it was mentioned somewhere, you really do not smell anything otherwise you stick your nose into it! Bulbo smell serves purpose of getting insects attracted to the bloom to pollinate it in the wild! I do not stick my nose to the blooms therefor I have never smell any stinky scent from any of my Bulbos:-)

RandomGemini · #10 10-18-2013, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI

I know everyone writes about different Bulbo smells, but as it was mentioned somewhere, you really do not smell anything otherwise you stick your nose into it! Bulbo smell serves purpose of getting insects attracted to the bloom to pollinate it in the wild! I do not stick my nose to the blooms therefor I have never smell any stinky scent from any of my Bulbos:-)

Aww! Come on! That's half the fun of this!

I'm really, really excited for mine to bloom. I hope I don't kill it before I get a flower out of it. I really want to know what it smells like because I've read a variety of different reports that it will smell like this, or that and no one seems to agree, so now I'm curious. I love that I can have this kind of fun with a hobby. It's almost as cool to me as teaching my dogs to retrieve and going through rally courses with Jet for the first time and watching him follow me around and do what I asked, the way I had seen professional trainers and their dogs do in matches.

We'll see if I think it's even cooler than that when it blooms. Not much compares to the day I got Jet's CGC certificate handed to me, because I thought that would never happen when I adopted the stinker, but I bet seeing a bud on my bulbo will come pretty close.