Division disaster

[BrassavolaStars]

Hello all,

I had an accident while dividing a Cattleya plant. This plant had a rotten section, so I decided to out the bad part. I used a single use razor but I guess I didn’t cut all the way through, and an extra piece of rhizome got gouged out when I tried to separate the sections. It was a bit like a hangnail the got pulled.

I circled where the division was cut from in red, the place where the rhizome was damaged in blue (it looks brown because I covered this in cinnamon. It was green.) , and the new eye and a root in purple. Is the new eye doomed? Am I going to have to cut out a whole additional bulb because of this error? Is a bad infection imminent? I hope not because it isn’t a well plant and there are only three other mediocre-at-best growths.

Is there any chance something like this just callouses over and doesn’t affect the rest of the plant or nearby possible leads?