broken Cattleya bulbs

[merkity]

So a certain someone( seen here helping me take pics) knocked my mini cattleya off its new home and broke a few of the bulbs...

is there anything specific i need to do with them? leave them on? cut them off? I didn't sterilize the breaks, so there is risk of infection as well...I couldn't tell where they all were at first...
this thing does seem to have 3 different growing points to it, so i am hoping it will just continue along, and one day give me flowers again

[Optimist]

Plants posess enzymes that cause the equivalent of a scab, which heals in time, though will end with a scar which may be offensive to a human, yet not even noticeable to the plant. I have two catlleyas with some rather comical bite marks in them done by my pet rats last winter. Now, I am not so sure what you mean by infection as I understand that in terms of cells and blood in warm blooded animals. If you fear bacteria, give it a little swab of alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and /or listerine. I feel he occasional spray with any of those 3 should be done occasionally anyway.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Generally speaking, do nothing. Leave it alone unless you feel that you need to disinfect the damaged area, (which, imo, you don't need to). It will continue on.

I accidentally bent a cane on my Den amabile, and I left the thing on; it healed and kept going.

[merkity]

thx! that is pretty much what i hoped. the poor thing has been moved, repotted, sun burned and broken in the space of a month - on the plus side, it has 3 active growing ends and those didn't break...i thought about trying to split it up, but decided against it and just put it in a bigger pot...

[LizB88]

I had one of my dancing lady nock down from my balcony two floors by a squerril. It had some damage to two bulbs, one which was the new one. I left it alone and only had to disinfect the new one later on when I saw that it was staring to get soft and developing some brown in the damage area and it was not scaring like the other one.
I treated with some hydrogen peroxide and put just a little bit of multi Antibiotic (generic from Walgreens) with just a tad of cinnamon using a q-tip and that stop any fungus that may have stared. Now the bulb just has a scar but is healthy and it even produce flowers afterward.
So unless you don't see any healing taking place then I would say treated with what was said before.

[merkity]

thx!