Bulbophyllum woelfliae
Submitted by JonasA on Sun, 14/06/2009 - 00:45
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Bulbophyllum woelfliae
Bulbophyllum woelfliae is one of my favorites. Grown in warm and humid conditions on epiweb.
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Jonas, your growing medium
Jonas, your growing medium "epiweb" cought my attention. Can you tell us a bit about it, what is it, is it synthetic? How long have you been using it and how successful has it been for you?
Fern
Hi West,
If i'm not mistaken that medium which so call 'epiweb' is actually Asmunda Fern..........It can be easily found here in my Country....Most orchid grow succesful on it.
Regards.
Pak Sheikh
Osmunda?
Do you mean Osmunda pak?
Regards wellsy
I'm not sure that this is
I'm not sure that this is Omunda fiber. The little I know about Osmunda comes from: http://www.borealforest.org/ferns/fern13.htm
I imagine that Osmunda fiber would be either loose fiber which could be used to line a basket or chopped up and used as a potting medium.
The material that Jonas is using looks more like a synthetic scouring pad.
Jonas please do tell us all about it.
pronunciation
All I wanna know is how we should pronounce the specific name 'woelfliae'?
Phew....what a tongue twister! LOL
Nice photo!
Regards wellsy
Nice
Hi Jonas, nice to see a new member add to the large number of photos on the site. Hope you continue to post images of your plants. How many plants have you managed to grow in a flat? How many bulbos do you have?
Pawpaw
Pronounciation
It is said like this wel-flee-ay.
Hope this helps your vocab Steve!!
'O'
I see...I was struggling to fit an 'O' in there.
In my mind the result wasn't pretty...thanks Ian!
Regards wellsy
How to say it??
Guys, can we add this 'how to say the name' column to every images posted? Maybe those who knows can help eg admin? I myself always find it difficult to pronounce the name especially those frm outside south east asia.
I agree
If people would go to the trouble of passing on this type of information it would be a fantastic thing abiom.
Unfortunately, I think it is wishful thinking though. There are many people who do not even bother to add the full name to the title of their post which makes for a lot of extra work for admins here.
The site would be so much more useful if we all went to that little bit extra trouble to do a little bit of research as we add our photos and fill in as much useful and incidental information about our photos as we can in the 'Body' area of our posts.
Members should also look at this advice area http://orchidsonline.com.au/node/1994 and also follow the links below that post for more details but in particular try to follow this advice http://orchidsonline.com.au/node/4447
Regards wellsy
The "oe" is the alternative
The "oe" is the alternative way of writing the German "O Umlaut" that is the O with the two dots on top. This alternative is used when the typewriter or word program does not have the Umlaut characters. The pronaunciation of it is somewhat similar to the "i" in the English word "bird" or the "u" in "burn" or the "e" in "fern". However if you pronaunce the "oe" as just "e" as in "well" you will be excused, unless you happen to be in a German school of course. LOL
Medium
I grew alot of my plants in Sydney on what looked like this material, and in fact it was re-cycled rubber tyre treads, and boy did my plants love it, had more success than on cork., But I dont know if this is the same stuff.
Simone
Epiweb
Simone you are correct on this. Epiweb is a part recycled and non recycled petrochemical product that won't decompose but will retain some moisture for quite some time. This product is commonly used in Europe.
See site below:
http://www.epiweb.se/introduction.htm
Regards,
migocab
Just a 100
Hi Pawpaw,
I have about 100 different orchids, mainly in my orchid terrarium. Of those, somewhat between 50-60
are miniature or small bulbophyllums.
Regarding EpiWeb, I've found it to please bulbophyllums and some dendrobiums very well. My two phal. lobbii like the epiweb too, but their roots are a little too large for the texture of the epiweb.
The epiweb does not really adjust that well if a phal. tick root wants to get through.
Paphiopedilums on the other hand dislike epiweb. The roots simply stop.
Jonas