This must be the fifth year since I were presented with an overgrown orchid, Ency. polybulbon.
According to Tan, a Malaysian Japanese graduate with a Master Degree, this fellow has never flowered ,or never being able to flower in our tropical environment. But when potbound,it's cute and pretty too.....it came from Peru/Columbia's mountainous region.
Just last August,if I remember it correctly,it commenced flowering in neglect with barely 3 to 5 unpresentable blooms ; nothing exciting......just like many others in my trial collections.
Seeing some improvement, I stripped off about 1/3 of the growing shoots and roots,wrapped arounded with dry sphanum moss and transplated it into a newly prepared clay pot.
This year, as in the picture taken,the tranplanted plant is in a blooming mood....nice and flowered well ,look very much like an Exhibiting polybulbon in Japanese's NEWORCHIDS orchid magazine !!!
BUT, strange : the original plant never flowered !!! this prove technique and growing knowledge are important. Even temperature can be well suited, many odd to be done.......
You really need experience ,when it come to growing orchid....Orchids..... ORCHIDS.....
Especially with stranger orchids.....
