Dried bracts and nectar...a hard lesson

[papayj]

I found that my Coel. nitida was in a weird sort of trouble....the papery bracts covering its newer pseudobulbs had been soaked with nectar (it is a prolific producer of nectar btw) and then dried up. The end result is that the bracts got so hard like a plastic and now they are preventing the pseudobulbs from growing, clamping around the bulbs like a vise. Not to mention mold growing and rotting one of the pseudobulbs. I soaked up the whole plant to remove those bracts, and I broke two pseudobulb during the process -- they had became extremely brittle.

The lesson learned here is that I need to frequently wash down the plant to remove the nectar covering the bulbs, and remove dried bract as soon as possible.