I second the repotting. It gives you a chance to look at the roots and medium.

I have a cymb in a tall plastic container, it gets watered 1/2 as much as the other cymb I have in terracotta.

I poke my finger below the top of the soil level probably once a week to check and make sure. If your orchid still isn't drying fast enough---you may want to consider using a fan.

Thank you i never thought about the fact that the cymb might be unable to absorb the water & nutrients.

If the new growth on a cymb gets eaten by i think snails:(( will it still flower?

if it is removed by the snails you will probably have to wait for the next p-bulb to flower.

Thank you all for all the replays... I bought the plants on ebay and they all arrived bare rooted by post (the roots looked good but i'm a newbie when it comes to orchids)i actually belive that the plants could be stressed like Cym Ladye mention before. I'm going to repot them again next weekend and have another close look at the roots.... I'll post some photos of the roots

Chumy, you may have opened a whole new thread with this question! In short, when the eye of a new growth from a healthy bulb is removed in any manner, another eye will develop another growth. Meanwhile, the bulb will continue to mature, as growths initially develop while the bulb itself is still growing. A process called Mekaki manually and deliberately removes the tiny sequential first growths from a bulb, that has not previously bloomed, at precise times during the growth period. In doing this, it is found that the maturing bulb gets bigger and will produce more and larger inflorescences at an earlier stage of total plant development.

So you can see, the time of the removal of your new growth may actually allow the sprouting bulb to mature and bloom earlier if it has not bloomed before. In any case, another growth will emerge.

If your bulb had previously bloomed, it is true that you may be set back a year, as the new growth may be behind in maturity if it is just emerging so late in the season. It also depends on the total overall size of the plant...2 bulbs or 3+ bulbs.

Anyway, Mekaki as a new way to look at the growth process of eyes from Cym. bulbs is a fascinating study. I am certainly not an expert on the process but I tried it on a few plants several years ago and found it successful, if extremely tedious, when properly done. :goodluck:

Good growing.

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Hi,

I have been looking for this article but I can not find it. Do you have any ideas where I might be able to find it?

Thanks,
Jim
Costa Rica