New growth patterns

[foxtailskies]

The neophyte strikes again I posted a while ago about a torn-looking leaf on my Odontoglossum 'Marguerite Holm' (see here for that post) and now a few weeks later, it's growing even weirder... to me anyway! Now it's got... another new growth coming out of the side of the barely-grown-in, damaged one? Do they do this normally or is it replacing the one whose leaf is eventually going to fall off?


Also... my Paph. looked like this when I bought it a month ago, and it hasn't done much since but while I'm on the topic of plant-growth-that-i-don't-understand... Don't Paph's only have 1 growth point? This one is coming in on the side, I figured it would put new leaves out around the stem? I know, this is probably all perfectly normal stuff, but I'm just curious as to what I should look for!


Thanks!!!

[DebsC]

It looks like new growths on both plants. I only have a few paphs, so I'm no expert on the subject.

[quiltergal]

Paphs are sympodial like Oncs, Catts etc. The new growths are often called fans. A Paph will only bloom once per growth. You usually see the new growths start when the last one is done blooming. Some species can do both at the same time. My Paph. liemianum is blooming and putting up a new growth.

With your Onc. it looks like it matured the new growth as much as it could and rather than waste energy on a pbulb that may not bloom it's growing a new one. I'm not 100% sure on that though.