My Phal is going crazy...

[jen.kirsten]

Hi everyone,

I haven't been too active on the boards for a while because everything with my orchids has been going pretty well. Today I noticed something as I was watering my huge Phal. It's had blooms since the middle of October last year and today I noticed three things:1) None of the blooms look like they're even close to wilting or dropping off or anything, 2) there is a tip of a new leaf coming up and 3) there are tons of new roots growing! My question is: can they do all three things at once? Sustain blooms, grow roots and produce new leaves? I feel like as a beginner with these plants this is some sort of dumb luck. All I do is water every 10 days (or when the roots look silvery) and fertilize every other watering and leave the plant in a southwest facing window where it gets a mix of direct light in the morning and filtered light in the afternoon.

Thanks for any input!