Scalded bulbophyllum

[Skribbane]

I'm so upset with myself right now.

When watering my Bulbophyllum fascinator, an "incident" occurred wherein I accidentally filled the water filter with hot water (either because I zoned out and used the wrong tap or my mother ducked in and got a backlog in the pipes when I wasn't looking). Without checking, I sloshed it over my poor little orchid and lo and behold, the plant was steaming. I did pour cold water over it immediately, but a few days later the pseudobulbs are going soft from the top down and are universally withered and sad looking.

I'm pretty sure I've cooked it good and proper, but has anyone had a plant come back from this horrific a shock? Why couldn't it have been one of the countless NOIDs and not the imported Bulbo

[Bud]

As long as you poured cold water immediately on it then the cooking process must have stopped....your plant was shocked but if it has still green roots it will recover. Just give it high humidity and follow the culture. When you pour boiling water on a cool temp plant with fine roots it will immediately push moisture internally and it might cause edema of the leaves that will interfere with making food so it will die....but if you arrested the boiling process, it might survive.

[Skribbane]

Thanks Bud, that's given me some faint hope. I don't know if I ran cool water over it enough to arrest the process (certainly didn't give it the 10 minutes as you do with human burns...!) but I suppose only time will tell. I think I'll relocate the poor thing to the bathroom to increase the humidity.

[Bud]

This specie has incledible flowers that move, wave and wiggle….endemic to Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.This plant is warm to hot grower….give it medium shade, moist humid conditions and plenty of air movent….make sure the new growth attaches immediately to the media to make it bloom….they tend to grow towards the air

[My Green Pets]

If I were you I would keep it right where it was, especially if it was doing well there. I think you want to change as little as possible right now so that the hot water damage is the only issue the plant has to contend with at the moment.

$0.02