How to prune pleione bulbocodioides

After spring flowering; tidy further at late-winter repotting. Remove spent flower stems by cutting at their base. Peel dry papery sheaths from old pseudobulbs when repotting. Separate and discard any pseudobulbs that are completely hollow or shriveled beyond recovery.

Annually, timed around the natural dormancy cycle. Pleione bulbocodioides needs very little pruning. Remove spent flower spikes after the spring bloom and tidy dried foliage as the plant enters summer dormancy. At annual repotting in late winter, discard fully exhausted pseudobulbs and remove dried sheaths. Do not cut into dormant or newly developing pseudobulbs.

Remove spent flower stems by cutting at their base. Peel dry papery sheaths from old pseudobulbs when repotting. Separate and discard any pseudobulbs that are completely hollow or shriveled beyond recovery.