new growths in september!?

[myshka]

i have a handfull of different oncidium types that have completed some new bulbs this year. but now that they're complete, or nearing completion (and some of them are flowering! yay!) i'm starting to see NEW shoots appear! and it's september!

i thought that they would start new growths in spring and slow down or stop new growths this late in the year. have i confused my plants?

also, i have a paph lowii who hasn't budged all year but it just now putting out two new growths.

and my dendrobium (not the kind that needs a winter rest) is starting a whole new cane!

also, if a plant is beginning a new shoot and the plant gets stressed and stops growing- will it abandon the new growth, temporarily stop and then continue later, or what?

one of my oncidiums got a wee bit sunburnt while it was growing new shoots and the new shoots haven't moved an inch in a month or two.


thank guys