This is quite possibly the worlds easiest orchid to grow. We got it in a pot in moss, but we soom potted it up into an 8in basket with moss. We eventually realized that it was never going to have roots much deeper than an inch so we took apart the basket and reassembled 2 baskets at half the height (the cattleya cernua is in the other half). We filled the little traylike basket with moss and plunked it back in. We water as the moss gets almost all the way dried out. Bulbophyllums are mostly "evenly moist" plants that we grow in sphagnum. We keep it in bright indirect light with the Phaels. It grows like crazy and makes usually 2 spikes out of every new pseudobulb. The flowers are really interesting looking, which is one reason why we really like Bulbophyllums. They're cool because they're weird. Less cool when the flowers smell bad, but makoyanum doesn't smell like anything so no worries! I highly recommend these if you want something really easy and low maintenance, but also prolific. I use the typical fertilizing regime (see Fertilizing post).
A couple of minor strange things happened to it. It put on new growth in August when it was really hot (along with 1 or 2 other plants) and that growth was always limp looking. When I looked it up limp growths can supposedly be from it being too hot, and I think that's what happened here since the growth seems fine otherwise. Also, recently the plant made a growth in the wrong direction and it ended up stuck at the bottom of the basket. I noticed a weird greenish blob when I was looking at the bottom of the basket one day and I dug it out, and it was a new pseudobulb! It's all scrunched up, but after I dug it out it has greened up like normal, and will hopefully flower!
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