Vanda keiki has mother root smothering it's crown

[canyon_md]

I just got a vanda and it has a keiki, but a giant root from the mother is growing on top of the crown of the baby. I don't want to hurt the mother by cutting a good root, though she has lots of good roots, but her root is smothering the keiki exactly where it is growing from and it can't be moved... Thoughts? In nature it would take care of itself or die. I just don't know what to do. It's a big, beautiful root from the mother and the keiki has 4 leaves, almost as wide as the mother, with top ones pinched closed at the crown where the mother's root is.....