Spitting Mad

[florafan]

Originally Posted by camille1585

That's why I buy so many orchids; to have bloom insurance when I snap spikes!

Talk about being an enabler! Now I have another reason for buying more orchids.

[flhiker]

That certainly sucks. I'm going thru a similar thing. I have a V. Pachara delight that had new buds emerging and went to check it out yesterday and found it snapped of at the first node and was totally missing. I think a squirrel had a snack. It was it's second blooming this year.

[ForestMom]

I have a small Dendro Cobbianum that grew multiple twirly hanging flower spikes and one had barely started to open when I went to look at them today they were missing, one of my cats ate the dangleing buds.....it is a rotten feeling...I sympathize. I hope for them to try again soon.Cats didnt touch any other part of the plant. On a seprate note I had a rougue B.Masdevalaceum p-bulb shooting way up in the air and when I tried to pisition it closer to the base to grab on it snapped the rhizome...it has the rhizone poking out the other side too,p-bulb has small roots...think it'll be ok? they dont like to be separated singly... Hopes for all our broken plants..

[silken]

I'm feeling the pain too. The other day hubby was working in the greenhouse and bumped a double T5 light fixture and knocked it down onto a shelf of plants. It knocked a large Phrag. Pink Fire (in spike) onto the floor and snapped the spike and broke and cracked the two largest, best leaves. Also a Miltoniopsis fell and snapped off the new growth right to the base. And another Phrag with what looks like the very beginning of my first spike on it fell to the ground. No visible damage but I hope it can still bloom after the shock. Then I found the spike (1st one) of my Psycopsis snapped off as well. It was on another shelf and I may have done that when watering, but I wasn't aware of when it happened. Talk about losing blooms and growth. Very heartbreaking. Guess we have to put these things in perspective tho when there are much worse things in the world.

[cbuchman]

I though I was the only one who did things like this. Though, for your sakes I'd rather I were the only one

[AnonYMouse]

I've not only dropped plants, I've bounced them. At least I didn't have to pick up clay shards.

[Leafmite]

It is comforting to read these tales. I get so frustrated when these things happen. My little Maltese-poodle mix, who has never before gone after a plant, destroyed my angraecum sesquipidale seedling I'd been growing for four years! As I don't want to start over, I gave in and ordered a blooming-sized one. At least it wasn't the magdalenae. :0

[ForestMom]

I think its hard for those of us with pets... one one hand I worry about my cats getting them, has only happened once, but its a horrible feeling. But on the other hand im comfortable knowing that Orchids are not poisonous! Honestly I feel worse to injur a plant myself....But weather its me or the cats, the plant will regrow.

[Leafmite]

Regrow? Not this one. She totally massacred it. But plants, unlike beloved pets, can be replaced.

[Orchidreamer]

I gave a beautiful miltoniopsis to my mom, and it had several bloom spikes. For some reason, the spikes were all leaning towards one side. A couple minutes after I gave it to her, I heard her exclaim, "Oh no! I did something bad!" I ran back to see what happened, and she was holding a flower spike in one hand, looking terribly distressed. "I was trying to bend the spike the other way so it looks better, and then it snapped," she said.



I told her it happens to everyone. Recently, I had an overgrown catt that was truly top-heavy, so when I was putting the plant back on the windowsill after watering, it went flying through the air and crunch...a newly matured bulb with a sheath had just snapped off.