Catasetum saccatum made a ridiculous number of keikis

[Havoccity]

It has only 5 pseudobulbs and yet it developed 6 keikis over the growing season. It's only now growing a new regular pseudobulb. Not sure what to do about this. I'm afraid it'll suck too much energy from the mother plant. Although the keikis appear to have stopped growing any larger, as the growing season nears its end.

I didn't give this plant a rest period over the last winter. I wonder if thats what caused it? I've heard of Dendrobium kingianum doing this if grown without rest periods.

It looks a bit ugly I realize. I was moving, and the plant got pretty sunburned; it was difficult to find a suitable outdoor spot for it to grow while my indoor lighting system was down. A lot of my plants suffered during the moving process unfortunately.

[isurus79]

I would remove the ones growing in weird places up the bulb and toss them. Unfortunately, not giving it a rest last year might have contributed to this one being out of sync. You could either treat this plant as you would a plant coming out of dormancy in spring, or cut it's water waaay back in mid December to help trigger dormancy which will result in stunted bulbs but hopefully plant that is back on schedule.