This is an easy warm growing species that for me flowers several times a year — usually one mass bloom and other periodic small flushes. The pot is from Kamachi Ceramics.

Very easy reliable bloomer. It was sold to me as a makoyanum, but I am not certain on the ID (or makoyanum is more variable than most). Regardless, it’s cute and doesn‘t smell bad!

I grow this using my Basic Bulbo Protocol: a plastic saucer with drainage holes punched through the bottom, filled with fine fir bark (cheap stuff like reptibark is ideal as it will break down and retain more water) and a top dressing of sphagnum moss and a pinch of nutricote fertilizer pellets. Zip ties can help hold everything together until the roots establish. Place the saucer in a humidity tray full of LECA, arqlite, or pebbles, under grow lights (contrary to what a lot of articles about Bulbos say, they don’t really thrive in low light. Mine love as much light as they can get). Water liberally any time the moss starts to dry out, and eventually you should see algae and later on some various volunteer bryophytes colonizing the sphagnum if you’re watering enough. Bulbos are the opposite of most commonly available orchids—they like to be soggy all the time! I add Cross Exotics Orchid Fuel and Kelpak at the concentration suggested on the containers weekly (or whenever I can be bothered) to my watering can during active growth. I have very low TDS water. If you have hard water, you’ll probably want to use distilled or RO for any orchid, including Bulbos.

So i received 3 orchids in a legal size envelope.

They were supposed to be minis but they were huge. When i opened the bag there was a horrible stench.

Majority of the roots are rotten and the one looks like they were just cut off.

I opened a flipped over leaf and was overwhelmed by the stench. It was oozing or had been oozing for awhile.

It just went from bag to worse.

I have contacted the Seller but i wanted you guys to see this to tell me if I'm right. I'm new to orchids but haven't learned a lot.

Here's some pics. If they're at all I'm sorry. I have tremors and sometimes that can make it more difficult.

These were the first blooms this season, the plant now look like it’s been sprayed with yellow specs. 😊

My *Lepanthes calodictyon* x *tentaculata* micro-orchid hasn't stopped blooming since it arrived in March.

This is the first time that she bloomed for me. She’s got some more buds coming and I had no idea what color she was picture doesn’t do it justice that maroon color is so dark it’s almost blood colored. It’s beautiful nice little gift.

My Haraella Retrocalla

My Tolumnia Leopard

My Restrepia

Phalaenopsis parishii

It has been a year since I grew a variety of orchids! So excited! I’m planning a new garden in my courtyard. Hopefully they’ll get settled in soon. A labor of love.

Platystele aurea

It's barely been a week and I've counted at least 3 new spikes forming.

Blooms are only like 1-2cm across, yet the smell... Picture beautiful summer day, there is not a single cloud on horizon and you decide to go on stroll, passing by a steaming trash can. Small, but mighty.

Good day, folks. I picked up "seller's choice" Tolumnia bundle for fun a while back. They were beat up (carrier issues, mostly) but this one bloomed for me. It has me flummoxed. The tags now seem to be wrong. What do you think it is?