mine are tacked onto the outer area of a fern basket that gets 5 minutes of drip irrigation every 8 hours...so the plant itself is just getting the runoff from the main pot, which has a mishmash of taiwanese fertz that i have yet to figure out the ratios for...i just but the one that have pictures of the plants i want to grow...that seems to work pretty well...
as for the stank, a philosophy i have long carried with me, if its rumored to stink, why go putting your face in it?
lovely blooms!