zainal abidin, I couldn't find any posts on Koellensteinia ionoptera but your post is the closest thing so I will ask you :-)..... AND YOURS IS QUITE LOVELY, BY THE WAY LOVE THOSE EXOTIC COLORS! I have a Koellensteinia ionoptera for close to a year now. It had a spike on it when I got it and bloomed. It went through its normal cycle of dormancy, then new growth & put out a leaf of about 15 inches long. I noticed the other day that there is a weird wormy looking thing sticking out of the pot, near the edge of the pot (as opposed to being at the base of the plant itself, in the middle of the pot)/yes, it looks like a root but I didn't think they had roots that looked like THAT. Is it a root, and if so, is the plant asking to be repotted? I have a feeling I need to take it out of the pot and see what's going on in there since I've never done that since I got it. I sort of hate to disturb now, when it SEEMS to be doing well. (this bloom is from last year/yep, buds got wet.) What is that thing coming out of the pot? Should I take it out and look at the roots? How does that compare (on a scale of 1 to 10 in difficulty of growing) to Bulbophyllums? (no particular species/hybrid, just an average one..... yes, this relates to my other statement about trying to get my confidence up to buy another Bulbo and try again. I've only bought one and it died in record time, causing an ego blowout at high-speed.)
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