We got "the big bulbophyllum" (because it has bigger leaves than makoyanum) from the Tropiflora Fall Festival. It was bare root, and we felt like we should buy an orchid but nothing else was really calling to us. We first potted it in moss into a 6" basket, but as soon as it started making new growths it grew them right through the slats out of the basket. We decided to do an experiment and bought one of the slat basket things that is flat for mounting with just a tiny lip. We put a layer of coconut husk basket liner on the bottom then a layer of sphagnum about a half inch thick. We placed the plant on it then used dental floss that we don't like that you get for free from the dentist to tie it down to the basket. We tied it on over the rhizome between pseudobulbs. It seems to have worked fairly well. If I had to do it again I think I would make my own slightly taller basket about 1" deep instead. This dries out pretty quickly and the roots are out of the medium and they probably don't prefer that as much. It got sunburned pretty bad in the first couple days in the greenhouse before we turned it into a gypsy tent. We had to cut 2 leaves off. It still has plenty more, so I think it will be ok.
ps. other fun things we got at the Tropiflora Fall Festival: 2 Desert Roses (Edeniums), and a Tillandsia "fuego". Also, they have the most awesomely fat Edenium ever there.
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