a back from the dead success story!

[kindrag23]

This is my oncidium now NOID after my moms tiny tornado of a great nephew came and un plucked their sticks. Well this started back october of '13 (wowza that feels weird!) But when my oncids were sitting in what was a shady portion of my little greenhouse the on coming time change and sun direction changed that into one of the brightest spots of the whole green house.

Needless to say I lost quite a lot of the bulbs on several plants due to severe burning...oy vay. So I decided to clean this one bulb up and do an experiment. I had to chop off the icky looking portion for what was fear of rot. It had very little to no roots as well. I quite honestly left it in my betta bowl w high humidity and wanted to see if the bulb had enough juice in it to put out a baby plant. I honestly have left it all alone and really basically ignored it til today whwn manuvering plants and found this little guy!! It now has 3 roots and 1 large bulb growth and soon 1 more growth!! Hurray! Now if I am ever to get it to bloom I may figure out what the heck it may be out of all my little sticks I have...

[kindrag23]

Heres the pictures the first few show u what it looked like previously. And then now. In the second photo u can barely see the second growth coming in.

[Leafmite]

Congratulations!
I'm so happy that it is recovering!

[kindrag23]

@ Leafmite thank you. I have it in lava rock and it seems to be happy in bright shade.

[Leafmite]

I'm thinking that it is very happy with how you are treating it.

[james mickelso]

I would place it in loosely packed sphagnum moss when the roots of the new growth start to grow. Hard to explain but it has worked very well for me in the past when I chop off the back bulbs of my oncids. I used lava rock for them but got better results with sphagnum moss. Loosely packed though. The micro environment is better inside the moss than the lava rock. There is going to be less and less additional moisture from the old pbulb and the new roots of the new growth won't be able to supply enough moisture until they are about 2 inches long and two months old. The root grows and we think oh goody. But the velamen takes time to open up it's pores to absorb water. That's why we don't take keikis off the mother plant until the roots are 2inches for oncids and 4 inches for phals. Good job experimenting with this pbulb. As I have said before, there is lots of energy left in old back bulbs. And for further experimentation I would get some of Ray's kelpmax. I saw a difference in root growth when I got a bottle. Worked for me.