I decided to try some Bulbos last fall. I bought a couple bare root, a couple mounted and two potted. I mounted the bare-root ones. I watered them when they started getting close to dry.
They didn't grow well at all. Several began growing new shoots, which soon turned black and soft. I lost two that were supposed to be "Easy."
I bought the book. Bill says he heavily soaks all his plants very frequently, because Bulbos appear to take up water slower than other orchids. He grows nothing on mounts because they do so much better in shallow, wet baskets. He has side-by-side photos of divisions of plants to prove it. There is a lot more, but this is the main thing I was doing wrong.
I strongly recommend the book. It cost a lot less than the plants I was about to kill, but now appear to be turning the corner.
I might add - B. echinolabium comes from Sulawesi and Borneo, where it probably rains only twice a day in the dry season.
Mine doesn't get too much light. You know what you can do as ive done it before? Candle the growth like a chicken egg. Any progress with the growth though?? Photos?
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Cambriawhat just did some stuff bout an hour ago. Pulled off a bad pseudobulb and stuffed some moss in there. And collected some rainwater😃 And this is what i meant by candling🙂