Dinema polybulbon - Orchid Board

pheli · #1 02-25-2011, 04:11 AM

Dinema polybulbon is a short orchid. Without seeing the blooms, the plant looks like bulbophyllum.
It also does well while mounted on a slab.

InspirChid1712 · #2 02-25-2011, 09:30 AM

What a tiny treasure! Excellent!

tuvoc · #3 02-25-2011, 11:34 AM

Totally charming, and totally new to me.

Kim

pheli · #4 02-28-2011, 07:57 AM

Thanks.
It also called Encyclia polybulbon which is a commoner name.

TOMMYMIAMI · #5 10-19-2013, 08:44 PM

pheli, absolutely gorgeous. I just got small division today, and mounted it on the cork, laying flat, as I heard that's better for this mini baby. Any growing tips? Many thanks

isurus79 · #6 10-19-2013, 08:53 PM

Cool mini!

Orchid Whisperer · #7 10-19-2013, 09:05 PM

I have two of these, one on a mount, one on a large basket. They do best if you keep each division with many pseudobulbs. My basket easily has more than 100 pseudobulbs, probably closer to 150. I think that the smallest healthy division I've had in the past had about 10 pseudobulbs.

I grow in Cattleya light. In summer they should stay pretty moist, but in winter, they should dry a bit between watering, maybe mist every other day, Thoroughly water every couple of weeks. Use 1/4 strength balanced water-soluble fertilizer weekly in the summer; switch to lower nitrogen fertilizer in the fall and winter, applied less often (maybe once a month?)

They bloom in the late winter-early spring, and are fragrant.

Good luck with yours!

TOMMYMIAMI · #8 10-19-2013, 09:10 PM

many thanks whisperer. I got division of some 8 pseudobulbs, so hope it will work and they will attach to cork mount:-)

james mickelso · #9 10-20-2013, 01:39 AM

Nice. How large?

katrina · #10 10-20-2013, 09:43 AM

I grew mine in a very similar manner as OW...

in a basket...leca on the bottom...chunky mix in the upper portion w/sheet moss around the top so the shallow roots had something to grab into for moisture. I had the whole thing sitting in a saucer of water during the warmer months and just kept moist in the Winter. Catt light. Intermediate temps. Just a good balanced fert year round.

If it's happy it will grow fast (like a weed!) and bloom very well. It has a really big flush of blooms once a year and then kicks out smaller flushes periodically throughout the year. I found it to be a very, VERY easy grower. Once this plant begins to grow well...it will grow so fast that it can double in size each year. No kidding....that fast.

This wasn't the most recent pic...I think it was from the 2011 bloom...regardless, it'll give you a good view for the growth habit and how I grew it in the plastic vanda basket... I hung it for this pic but usually it sat in a saucer of water.

I divided mine and then ended up giving all the pieces away. Spacially challenged so it was one that found a new home.