Multiple side spikes while in full bloom. What's going on?
So a coworker (A) of mine just received a Phal from a friend. (It arrived at work so I got to see it).
It has very tall spikes and very large blooms. I noticed on the next node down, it's doing a side spike. And the I noticed on the other tall spike it is also side spiking!
Then, as I was pointing them out to another coworker (B), we realized the top few nodes on both spikes are all sending off little side spikes!!
Coworker B was all like "wow, it's really happy!" And told me about a rich person with a large green house in Hawaii I think that raised orchids. She seemed to know some stuff about orchids. However, my personal feeling on the matter is tha multiple side spikes at one time without trimming back to a node sounds like trouble. To me, I feel like its going into baby mode to preserve its 'blood line' so to speak. I didn't want to depress anyone by voicing this. Lol
I haven't gotten a good look at the roots yet. I offered to repot it for her after it finishes blooming.
What do YOU think?
Super happy orchid
or
trying to make babies before it dies?
---------- Post added at 07:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:33 PM ----------
PS I left left out that she used to work for said orchid farmer
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