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Originally Posted by unhappykat
The second is definitly a spike, the first looks like a spike emerging, I have only one cycnoches and when it spiked it resembled this, mine grew very long and thin, when the blooms opened they looked like they would rip the spike right off the poor plant. Good growing.
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Originally Posted by isurus79
Both are spikes and your second pic is a boy! Each little spikey on the barthiorum will be a flower and the flowers will be male! Males tend to last for only a short time (see Nancy's recent post), while the female flowers last much longer and seem to have a stronger scent. Enjoy!
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Thanks kat and Isurus,
Now I know what the difference between a male and female spike is...and I'm wondering what the differnce is between the way the female and male flowers look.
Is this difference a random act, or does one plant always produce one gender of flower or the other?
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