New growths and possibly even a new spike? - Orchid Board

Susie11 · #1 06-27-2012, 01:34 PM

I got this Bulbo. grandiflorum a few months ago. It has just started to put out two new growths and what I think / hope is a spike!! I don't know for sure that it is a spike but I would love to know so maybe one of you experts on bulbos can put my mind at rest. Is it a spike?????

This one is definitely a growth

The same growth with another new growth visible on the second bulb -you can just make it out at the base of the bulb.

This growth is alot thinnner and does not look at all the same as the other growths although maybe it is still a growth -I don't know?

Spike?

Susie11 · #2 06-28-2012, 06:58 AM

RosieC · #3 06-28-2012, 06:58 AM

The last looks like it MAY be a spike. On my Bolbo Jersey the spikes start out looking like that, while the growths are much wider like in your first pictures.

Susie11 · #4 06-28-2012, 07:06 AM

Thanks for responding Rosie. I was wondering whether anyone would or not. I hope that it is a spike but I did think that they emerged from the rhizome and not the actual bulb. I have been looking online at some pics of them but it is not easy to tell. I hope you are right. Oh excitment!!

RosieC · #5 06-28-2012, 07:58 AM

On my Jersey they emerge from the base of the bulb like you are seeing. I do think you have a spike there

Susie11 · #6 06-28-2012, 08:21 AM

The first spike that I had came from the rhizome.

As you can see the long thin white object looked like a spike. There is another smaller nubbin on the other pbulb. Well, after that picture was taken I lost the large growth which I was sure was a spike. Everyone had said that the nubbin was def a new growth and that the thin tall thing was a spike. Anyway, I lost the spike -to rot I think- and I waited for something else to happen. Now the new growth that is possibly a spike is the nubbin that everyone said was a growth. Where it is coming from is the old pbulb so that is why I am asking whether they can start from pbulbs and from the rhizome becasue I have had them start from both places -assuming that this is a spike and not a growth as was previously thought.

Leafmite · #7 06-28-2012, 11:22 AM

I don't grow bulbos so I have no idea. Sorry you lost a new growth. Hope someone has the answers.

RosieC · #8 06-28-2012, 12:02 PM

Is it coming from the old p-build, or is it coming from the Rhizome just below the old p-bulb? From the last two pictures in your first post I would say it's coming up from the base of the old p-bulb... so from the Rhizome just below it.

I only have two bulbos, but in both the spikes have come from right at the base of the p-bulb, where it joins the rhizome.

Susie11 · #9 06-28-2012, 12:22 PM

This one is coming from the base of the old pbulb but before the spike that aborted came from the actual rhizome? If you look closely you can see there is another fat growth / nubbin on the rhizome along, that is where the orginial one came from. The new one is coming from the base of the old pbulb. Maybe this type of bulbo is able to produce spikes from the base and the rhizome? I don't know. I have never heard of a jersey I'll have to have a Google.

Susie11 · #10 06-28-2012, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Leafmite

I don't grow bulbos so I have no idea. Sorry you lost a new growth. Hope someone has the answers.

Sorry to confuse you Leafmite but I didn't lose a new growth I lost a spike. The tall long white one on the left in the second set of pics. I have another one now though -top set of pics- so maybe this is a spike. We shall have to wait and see.