Kiki paste

[Corsetière]

I bought some keiki paste off of ebay for a very fair price. I haven't had a chance to use it yet though because right after I bought it, the plant I intended to use it on developed a keiki on it's own! I guess it just needed the suggestion. lol!

[shaelyn]

Originally Posted by orchid-recruit

I have a question about kiki paste. If I put it on a stem node but there are still flowers in bloom above the node, will this shorten the lifespan of the flowers in bloom? I just did this to a mini Mark Holm and I am wondering if I should have waited until the flowers had completely dropped.

I have put keiki paste on a phal that has opened all of its buds. it has new growth on both the nodes I applied paste to that I'm inclined to assume will be keiki. the flower spike had two branches, and I trimmed one off with blooms to put less stress on the mother plant, but the other branch has held all its blooms on fine. it's been weeks. also note though, this is probably the healthiest orchid I have.
for the record, this may be useful info to some, I also applied it to a mini phal with bud blast. it had two spikes, and I applied it to two nodes at first...I didn't see any growth, so I reapplied to four nodes. I saw growth out of three out of the four nodes. I clipped one flower spike - again, I'm keen on not stressing the mother plant too much. two keiki per plant is enough for me for now.
my keiki paste is from the repotme website.

I may post pictures of it later, I'm all picture'd out today.

[shushu45]

I got some off of eBay two months ago. The stuff is working on a few of my Phal.s

[shaelyn]

picture time!
this is the one that's still holding onto its blooms, as it has for months and months, ever since I got this orchid in the fall. I clipped the top branch of flowers...that new growth has some serious business going on, I hadn't looked at how its doing in a while ^_^
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...s/100_2864.jpg

and this is the mini that had two flower spikes with the blooms and buds all dropped off of it, I clipped one
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...s/100_2862.jpg

so yeah, this stuff definitely works and should be okay with a plant with blooms, if it's healthy enough. my only complaint is it's expensive, you get a small vial and yet it's still more than you would ever use. I'd prefer a vial half the size for half the price.

EDIT: I had to look at my blooming one better. one of the new growths seriously looks like it has a not-yet-entirely-formed open bloom on it. maybe this stuff doesn't work as well as I thought, maybe these are just new flower spikes.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...s/100_2877.jpg

[shushu45]

Here is my biggest keiki.

[sakthinair]

Originally Posted by Phal grower

Hi there.

Can any of you tell me more about kiki paste? Does it work well and where do you get it? Thanks.

The same is working well. I had pasted the same afte rmaking a paste, to the small dips on the flower stem of an Orchid flower and all the grew as new ones. I got 7 from a single. The same I got through my asst who only knew where it got at Ernakulam. Unfortunately He is no more and my searches are in vain. It is 100% working.