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Old 02-01-2016, 05:52 PM
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Hopefully the photo will show...
This was my first orchid, a Phel NoID somebody gave me as a gift. It has always resisted dying at my hands, in spite of many rookie mistakes, and has come from the brink a few times. I am a bit stumped about what to do with it. Almost a year ago, after I cut the flowering spike above a node, it proceeded to grow another horizontal spike, and from it a little keiki. Somewhere in the middle of this process the plant got very stressed as a result of a bad repotting, lost a lot of roots, and thankfully was able to recover eventually. Never dropped the keiki but it never grew roots either. Recently I saw some growth at the base, but it was not a root, but a tiny flower spike. I cut it off thinking it would encourage roots to grow, and now seems to be hellbent on growing TWO little flower spikes.
I am going to let the plant get its way and flower (mostly I am rather curious what it would look like), but I am wondering if after flowering I should just cut off the flower spike at the base and do away with the keiki... or is there a way to persuade it to grow roots?
keep the keiki or cut the spike off?
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