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06-24-2014, 01:32 AM
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Look, Look! Two new paph spikes? Oh boy!
Just had my first paph bloom for me. So excited! Just now I checked two of my other paphs and I do believe I have two brand-new spikes forming. What do you think?
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06-24-2014, 05:58 AM
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Good question! I'm still learning what new spikes look like myself. I've bought a couple in bud but in the last week or so my Paph. Odette's Vision is coming into double spike & it appears Lebaudyanum is preparing one. A third - Paph. President Fred - currently has two blooms on one spike and a second growth looks like your second picture, I've been thinking this means a spike may be coming. The first two looked more like your first pic except that that middle "new growth" (sheath?) is a different color, darker in both cases. That's just my experience so far. (Would post pics if had but dark now!)
Hope these are spikes for sure!
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06-24-2014, 06:04 AM
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you can feel the bud inside the unseen sheath thru the leaves. it feels... well pregnant n got a little belly going ya know..you can feel it before it shows itself just like a baby too
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06-24-2014, 07:25 AM
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Do not tet discouraged if you can feel bud, but nothing happens for a while. Paphs have one of the longest 'bud development' times, total 5-6 months from time of initiation.
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06-24-2014, 03:35 PM
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Best to gently squeeze where it is emerging. If it's a bud then you'Il be able to feel it.
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06-24-2014, 04:04 PM
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Not to be a party pooper, but I think they are new leaves. Emerging spikes usually have a sheath or are somewhat hairy looking. But hey, leaves are good!  |
06-24-2014, 04:10 PM
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I think it's leaves too.  I agree though...leaves are good! Leaves create energy for the plant!  |
06-24-2014, 04:40 PM
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Hmmm, don't paph leaves grow from the sides and not the centre? The last spike I had looked just like this as it emerged.
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06-24-2014, 04:44 PM
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New fans grow from the sides. I'm thinking this fan has not matured yet & that is why you are seeing new leaves.
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06-24-2014, 04:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaphLover
Just had my first paph bloom for me. So excited! Just now I checked two of my other paphs and I do believe I have two brand-new spikes forming. What do you think?
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Well, the first one, the closer up one, that's a new leaf emerging. In the shot with something tiny and kinda dark apparently emerging....not sure, but that fan doesn't appear mature enough for whatever it is to be a bud emerging.
But congrats on that first one in actual bloom!!!
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