Catasetum Keikis? - Page 2 - Orchid Board

isurus79 · #11 09-26-2008, 12:08 AM

I really dont think that you can call these growths keikis. Really, they are just new growths growing in a spot that is higher on the bulb than normal. I would treat it as such. If you were to cut off the bulb and follow EdinAZ's advice, then it might be a keiki. Since you dont have that many bulbs, I would not cut it off.

JennS · #12 09-29-2008, 12:56 PM

I don't plan on removing the bulb or anything like that. What would constitute a keiki then? If you leave it attached to the main plant on a dendrobium or phal then it is still a keiki, so why wouldn't this be called a keiki? Just wondering...I thought they were all keikis when they grew off a pbulb. Just checking...

isurus79 · #13 09-29-2008, 01:54 PM

My opinion is that a keiki is designed to be a new plant unto itself (think dendrobium plants asexually propagating themselves), while a new p-bulb such as yours is just a new eye in a strange place that acts as a backup if the lower eyes are not functioning. Basically, this new bulb is just that, a new bulb. Its not an asexual form of reproduction.

JennS · #14 09-29-2008, 05:21 PM

Ohhhh...thank you for the clarification. I wasn't really looking at it that way, but you made it clear for me. Thanks alot!

Junebug · #15 09-20-2011, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by JennS

Ohhhh...thank you for the clarification. I wasn't really looking at it that way, but you made it clear for me. Thanks alot!

Hi Jenn,

My pileatum has a developed a new growth on the 5th node up similar to yours. It's still small and I'm not sure what it is. It's coming from a bulb that bloomed 2 years ago. Last year the bulb developed a small patch of rot near it's base while transitioning to a brief domancy. I left it alone because it wasn't mushy or deep and it ceased spreading and calloused on it's own. This is the same bulb that has now sprouted the mystery growth. I questioned my decision to not remove it, but the plant has continued growing and it just developed 2 spikes from the most recent growth.

Whatever became of your mystery growth? Thanks.

Merlyn · #16 09-20-2011, 10:28 AM

The RHS registered name in 1971 IS Clowesia Rebecca Northen !