I'm so bummed

[Mr. Failingflopsis]

I bought three Paphs for my office window and the largest "Raisin Pie" was about to open. I lifted it off the shelf to take it to the sink to water it and bumped it's "head" in the shelf above decapitating the not yet opened bloom.

[Frdemetr]

Put 'Sh' before the title!

[cb977]

Most of us know the sinking feeling you got in your gut when it happened

Last year, after waiting over a year for a bud to start on one of my paphs...I tried to "help" it by staking it and promptly ripped the nearly open bud clean off!
I remember screaming and using some bad words...okay, a lot of bad words

Go buy yourself a new one

[Ross]

I can relate. A couple years ago I was photographing a newly opened spike of Phal blossoms and managed one exposure before the background cloth fell on the plant crushing the spike! Luckily the exposure I made was useable.

[Mr. Failingflopsis]

I was just SICK when I saw the bud on the floor. The only "bright side" is Mrs. Floppy has bought the same Paph (Raisin Pie) the same day, has hers at home, and it's about to open. At least I'll get to see what it would have looked like.

[Tindomul]

That sucks. Lots of mistakes like this happen. You drop the plant, you drop something on the plant, etc.... ANd they always tend to occur when its picture time too. Thats when we mess with the surroundings the most as opposed to the rest of the year when we leaves the plants alone. Oh well. Perhaps it will decide to bloom again later. Imagine all the bud and spike loss these plants must endure in the wild, with raging winds, falling rocks, rogue animals etc....

[Ross]

Originally Posted by Tindomul1of9

That sucks. Lots of mistakes like this happen. You drop the plant, you drop something on the plant, etc.... ANd they always tend to occur when its picture time too. Thats when we mess with the surroundings the most as opposed to the rest of the year when we leaves the plants alone. Oh well. Perhaps it will decide to bloom again later. Imagine all the bud and spike loss these plants must endure in the wild, with raging winds, falling rocks, rogue animals etc....

The plant will survive for sure. But I think the point of the "bummer" is that he wanted to see and complete the blossom - it was for me. It's no "bigee" however it can be a real bummer at the time.

[Shadow]

I was closing the balcony door few days ago and managed to smash whole bunch of phalaenopsis flowers, my favorite bunch. It was so unusually symmetrical and I wanted to make a photo in the evening.

[Ross]

Too late

[justatypn]

We have all hurt our "almost ready to bloom" orchids, its just so frustrating and unlike paph's my phal which was decapitated by the fan came back 2 months later with 8 blooms. Unless paph's do come back and I am not aware, mine never did...kept that bloom stem attached to the orchid for a very long time, never enough fingers to cross for there showing after an accident.

Not all is heart broken being able to share this gorgeous bloom with the wife