Trouble in paradise!!

[Jeffery]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

That's great!
Mine does well with some morning sun. They don't like to dry out. Moist, but not soggy

Glad I asked, I pulled the skeewer out tonight and it was dry can't imagaine why it was so dry, Thanks WhiteRabbit.

[Jeffery]

My 2 remaining buds on my Oncidium alliance, Miltonia appear to be getting ready to bust open, I sure hope nothing happens to them.

[Tropicgirl]

Can't wait to see them when they open!

[Jeffery]

Will maybe not much longer Tropicgirl, this surely is much more exciting than watching grass grow

[Jeffery]

Success!! I didn't kill the last 2 buds, maybe today they will be fully opened

[cneos]

Your plant looks like a miltonia/miltoniopsis hybrid. My experience has been that once the inflorescence has come out of its sheath (safety blanket) and the buds are set, they are very sensitive to changes in environment.
Get rid of the dead / dying spikes (shown in your first set of photos. The new spike that is just emerging should be okay as long as it is not exposed to drafts, or drastic changes in light, temp, humidity.
BTW, 'pansy' orchids do not make good cut flowers. Once an inflorescence is cut, flowers last only about half a day (if you're lucky).
Start reading miltonia/miltoniopsis culture sheets now so that when all the flowers are gone, you'll now how to care for your plant until new pseudobulbs emerge with next years flowers.

[Jeffery]

Originally Posted by cneos

Your plant looks like a miltonia/miltoniopsis hybrid. My experience has been that once the inflorescence has come out of its sheath (safety blanket) and the buds are set, they are very sensitive to changes in environment.
Get rid of the dead / dying spikes (shown in your first set of photos. The new spike that is just emerging should be okay as long as it is not exposed to drafts, or drastic changes in light, temp, humidity.
BTW, 'pansy' orchids do not make good cut flowers. Once an inflorescence is cut, flowers last only about half a day (if you're lucky).
Start reading miltonia/miltoniopsis culture sheets now so that when all the flowers are gone, you'll now how to care for your plant until new pseudobulbs emerge with next years flowers.

Thanks for the info, I sure will read about this plant, I want to see many more flowers from it. Once it arrived to its new home here with me, its enviorment has been fairly consistant without any drastic changes, I am glad when I bought it the 1 spike was far behind as it was than the others or I would be having no flowers at all I am sure.

[Jeffery]

updated pic, 2 hours later from last posted pic.

[Jeffery]

and now

[cneos]

It'll be interesting to see this as a time elapsed sequence of flowers opening.
Thanks for this ...