Phal first bloom double mutant.

[TomThumb]

Hi! I bought my first phals in spike and they've been so healthy and easy compared to my vanda seedlings. None of the initial order (of course I made another order of goals) bloomed yet but it's only been a month and the buds have all been growing. However one of them cracked open two weeks ago but never opened. After a week I carefully unstuck the sepals but it still didn't open so I left it alone. Since then it's very minutely opened a bit further so I was able to watch the inner portals turn from white to purple. And then I noticed it has two lips! ....I looked more closely and compared it to a blooming Phal I received this week and saw that it looked strange.


Here's a photo. I think it popped because of the excessive petals and it wasn't ready to bloom. Inside you can see two sets of central structures. I don't think it will continue producing mutants because this is its first bloom and it probably still needs to sort itself out but I'm curious to see how this bloom looks when it finally opens.