Something growing from node... - Orchid Board

calypsoB · #1 02-18-2012, 02:21 AM

So my son got a little noid mini phal (purple velvet looking petals and a long lip) and a few of the buds blasted. So I though hey why not see if I can get a keiki out of it. So I put on some moss soaked in rooting hormone (no real hope of a keiki but hey, why not

Anyway, on a bud blasted node close to the end of the spike and after the flower (well past the moss ball) two little fang looking things are coming out of either side of the node cover (sry don't remember the name :S). They are very tiny and green/purple. I would attach a pisture but I am not sure they would show due to size/colour issues. Does anyone have an idea what they may be? The stem is still quite healthy. I haven't ever seen this before.

And The fangs

silken · #2 02-18-2012, 09:47 PM

I think you might have to wait a bit longer to see what it is. I've never had a keiki grow from a spike but don't think it would really look like that. I guess it could also be a spike branch, but that too doesn't look quite right. Time will tell, unless someone else can

tucker85 · #3 02-18-2012, 10:19 PM

I agree, it's too early to tell what it is. You'll know soon enough.

billc · #4 02-19-2012, 06:54 AM

Silken & Tucker are right, it's too early to tell, but I would think the spike is branching. The good news is that whatever it is it's alive. You'll either get a keiki or more blooms.

Bill

calypsoB · #5 02-19-2012, 12:58 PM

So that little green growth also has a twin on the other side of the bract. Does that mean it would be a double spike from the same node? Does that happen? There is lots of activity on the stems from this mini. All the nodes are swollen and another node looks like it is growing something under the bract. Figures! This one isn't mine!LOL!

camille1585 · #6 02-19-2012, 01:33 PM

That just looks like an overgrown bract. If I understood correctly, this is a bract where there once was a bud? In that case there no chance at all of having a keiki, Phals don't grow them from the same bracts are where blooms were.

calypsoB · #7 02-19-2012, 04:15 PM

I am not sure if there was a bud from that node. Many buds blasted so quickly that I didn't really see where they were from. I looked inside the node and it doesn't look like there was a flower ever there. I will post a picture..those are worth a thousand words

camille1585 · #8 02-20-2012, 05:58 AM

Still hard to tell what I'm looking at in that pic. Do you have a photo of the entire top part of the spike perhaps?