HELP HELP !! weird looking things on catasetum

[WhiteRabbit]

very interesting to say the least ...

[Swamper]

A mutation ???

[catasetum-ian]

ok, no more guesses. this morning flower bud like structure started emerging from the tip. so its a spike, but a spike with root at the base, first time for me and the diameter is about 3x of the previous 2 spike. wouldn't it be nice if the flower is twice the size as well this time

[Junebug]

That's really cool. I'll be looking forward to updates.

[nenella]

Very interesting! I look forward to updates too! thanks.

[Rosiefuture]

It's a spikey! hehe

Marion

[catasetum-ian]

yes, but a spike with its own roots, first time for me

[catasetum-ian]

ok....update on the flower ID, took the photo and show it to the nursery, seems like they mistakenly ID it initially. this hybrid is ctsm. Penang red X ctsm. Serdang Oo Oo

[Junebug]

How's the speiki doing? That's what I call those undecided/confused growths. One of my dendrobiums makes them all the time.

[RobS]

Originally Posted by Junebug

How's the speiki doing? That's what I call those undecided/confused growths. One of my dendrobiums makes them all the time.

It's actually that a confused growth. This can occur due to a mutation like in your Dendrobium where it happens every year. On the Catasetum here the plants seems normal looking at the previous flower stems. So it could be a one of occurence due to a sudden change in climate or anything in the enviroment.

Technically a shoot is induced as a vegetative growth but somewhere in it's early development it received a flowering induction and turned generative.