Paph flower too heavy for spike- how to stake it?

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I have an overall healthy Paph majestic fred that I bought several years ago in flower with a gorgeous, huge dark purple slipper. The past 2 cycles as it sends up a spike, ultimately the flower gets too heavy and ends up weighing the fleshy stem down to the point it crimps the stem and the stem shrivels up and the flower never blooms. I’ve tried to support it once I see this starting, but it’s always too late.

This one’s stem is very fleshy and doesn’t seem to harden. With the curving shape of the top of the stem I don’t know how best to stake it, and I’m afraid of damaging it myself.

Any tips for how I can stake it with enough support that the flower doesn’t weigh it down so much? It’s starting to send up a new spike now.

I’ll try to find a photo from the last disaster to illustrate