what is this?

[tedro]

before the last flowers dropped, this began to grow.
are these going to be tiny flowers?

i am a novice. this is first orchid (phaleanopsis) i’ve ever had. bought in bear full bloom from grocery store 4-5 months ago.

photo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8ESQdAzhxXHk1zxy8

[DeaC]

WTG!

[fishmom]

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[tedro]

Originally Posted by fishmom

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how about this:
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

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Originally Posted by fishmom

Sorry, your photo is not visible. Welcome to the board, though! Please try again.

how about this:
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

[fishmom]

Hi Tedro, you have a Phalaenopsis orchid. I'm guessing it was a mini-phal, with many small blossoms, when you bought it. It is normal for the blossoms to drop eventually, and at that point it is a good idea to repot the plant if you want it to thrive and bloom again. There is a great deal of information on this site about Phals. Here are a couple of useful links:
The Phal abuse ends here.
Repotting video, hope it helps!

[tedro]

at first i thought it was a keiki, but it’s this weird bonus flower growth.

if i go to places where there are lots of these orchids to look at, sw florida, dozens and dozens, ... some have keikis but none have anything like this.

has anyone seen anything like this before?
photo link: Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

when i bought it Sep 9, it looked like this:
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

and, a month or so later:
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

---------- Post added at 03:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

Originally Posted by fishmom

Hi Tedro, you have a Phalaenopsis orchid. I'm guessing it was a mini-phal, with many small blossoms, when you bought it. It is normal for the blossoms to drop eventually, and at that point it is a good idea to repot the plant if you want it to thrive and bloom again. There is a great deal of information on this site about Phals.

thanks fishmom!
so have you ever seen anything like this (the new growth) before?
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

ps. i always thought: don’t repot a budding plant?

[Clawhammer]

None of the pic pic links work

[tedro]

Originally Posted by Clawhammer

None of the pic pic links work

oh well, thanks anyway.
i guess the site doesn’t accept google photos links.
i don’t see an upload feature.
if i figure something out, i’ll add them.

how about this one?
Shared album - Ted Rogers (ichi) - Google Photos

maybe i can trick it, copy and remove the space before “photos.”
https:// photos.app.goo.gl/vLimzKQnYtNkM7Px7

same here, a photo of when bought it at grocery store Sep 9:
https:// photos.app.goo.gl/J7PZnaeXvz1xiGuP6

(those are same links as used before, sans 1 [added] space.)

[tedro]

images?

(center?, flowers) first bought sep 9.
and now.

[Mountaineer370]

I can see the pictures fine. It looks like, after it got done with its first blooms, it decided to put out new spikes, plural, from the old one. I have seen this happen, though that is a lot more branches than I think I have seen at one time on a rebloom. It's also unusual (to me) that most of the spikes seem to be growing downward.

I have one right now that had been in bloom for months from a single spike, and as those flowers were getting old and ready to start dropping, it just started growing again from the end of that original spike, getting longer and longer, with more flowers than it had the first time around. At the same time, it's putting out another spike from another location.

If there's one thing I've learned from growing orchids, it is that they will do pretty much whatever they want to. They love to surprise us (or keep us wondering what, if anything, they're going to do).

By the way, welcome to the Orchid Board!