Bulb. Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry' FCC/AOS

[dounoharm]

this is the ONLY bulbo I grow....those fantasmagorical blooms just kill me! I love it, and the little jigglies at the top are extra fun! yours looks really happy silken, thank you for the info! good growing!

[LeeB]

Originally Posted by silken

My Bulb. Elizabeth Ann is blooming again. This time it has 2 spikes with 7 blooms which is the most it has produced since I got it as a division several years ago.

What is your culture?
Happy Thanksgiving. LeeB

[generaljusik]

I had a spike on my Elizabeth Jean, and suddenly it got "rotten/soft" near bud and died. Any ideas on what happened or what I did or did not do? I mist my bulbophyllums with water to keep up humidity, I tried very hard not to mist spike.
It is in a Vanda basket.

[Bayard]

One of my favorites!

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by generaljusik

I had a spike on my Elizabeth Jean, and suddenly it got "rotten/soft" near bud and died. Any ideas on what happened or what I did or did not do? I mist my bulbophyllums with water to keep up humidity, I tried very hard not to mist spike.

Do you have good air-circulation in the growing area? Good air-circulation (avoiding still-air) is highly beneficial. Still-air can often lead to issues (unwanted fungal growth, rotting etc).

Maybe it's ok to skip the misting ..... or manual misting. It's possible that the extra treatments - such as manual misting - is generating conditions for the rotting activity. I think that if your growing media is a suitable one, and if air-circulation in the growing area is good - good natural air movement nearly all of the time, and if the watering schedule is a suitable one, then that should be quite nice for the plant already.

[DirtyCoconuts]

forgive a dumb question but hits looks a lot like the flowers on my bulb Rothschild...are they closely related?

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by DirtyCoconuts

forgive a dumb question but hits looks a lot like the flowers on my bulb Rothschild...are they closely related?

It is a dumb question, but we forgive it as ordered.

You are right. There are certainly similarities. Notice the lower case 'r' in Bulbophyllum rothschildianum. That's part of a naming format, where the lower-case is linked to a 'species'.

They took that species, and crossed it with another species called Bulbophyllum longissimum. That cross resulted in lots of children plants, and one of those children turned out to be Bulb. Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry'. The name Elizabeth Ann is the name of the 'cross'. It is a hybrid. Elizabeth Ann is the grex name...... the name or label for this particular hybrid (cross).

A way to check on a hybrid (cross) is to head on over to the Royal Horticultural Society's "international orchid register" site at The International Orchid Register / RHS Gardening - then go to the very bottom of their page, and enter the genus .... which is Bulbophyllum, and then enter the grex ... which is Elizabeth Ann, then click on 'search'. And if the search finds a result, then put the mouse cursor over that result, and then click on it. Some information will appear, such as parental names.

Also, bluenanta (whatever that means) generally has information about a lot of orchids, so use google and do a search like "bulbophyllum elizabeth ann bluenanta". Do searches like this for getting orchid information.

[DirtyCoconuts]

Terribly sorry, Southpark.

I thought it might be interesting for the sake of discussion to ask the question in the thread rather than research it by myself. I will certainly refrain from asking any questions here unless I have made sure it is not redundant.

[SouthPark]

No problem DC!

There's no problem with asking any orchid question though on the forums, even if you deem it to be dumb and even if somebody agrees with you about it.

I'm just showing for example - in a few seconds after googling something like "bulbophyllum elizabeth ann and rothschildianum relation" - it will lead to that answer.

Then after I find out, I would then say that it's awesome that my rothschildianum is closely related to Elizabeth Ann. Very closely related.

I nearly purchased an Elizabeth Ann 'Buckleberry' earlier this year! I was thinking about it, and had to hold off at the end - due to possible space/room considerations. They had a couple for sale on ebay Australia - most likely got sold. Very nice and interesting flowers indeed.

[SpclK]

Nice, Silken; especially the second picture of the flowers. I hope my Buckleberry will look as good as yours some day.

I need to repot my Buckleberry; it fell out of it's pot and I just never repotted it but I mist the roots almost everyday. I'm planning on melting holes in a shallow food container and potting it that way as it's too big for one of my net pots. I couldn't figure out what to use besides long coco fiber to line the food container but the onion and potato bags are a thought. How do you get the roots to not go through the nylon sack? Can you pull the roots out of the sack without hurting the roots?