Flower spike coming out of crown

[bbs]

I wouldn't be so sad... one of my phals had a terminal spike when I bought it over a year ago, and it's the best flowerer I have. The fact that it won't grow any more leaves doesn't appear to affect it's happyness none of the leaves show any signs of yellow, the root system is great, the phal has produced SIX more 50cm+ spikes on the plant itself, every one with several branches, the terminal spike has 3 branches from the little leaf it has and so on... if this is it's final effort (it has been flowering with a minimum of 5 blooms for 15 months now) it's going out with a bang and loving it