Cycnodes wine delight: root rot and keiki formation

[fishmanejr]

Hi All,

I made a beginners mistake on my Cycnodes wine delight by over-watering (too soon) once new growth started this spring. Needless to say, all the roots, the new growth, and the old pseudobulbs rotted. The basal 1/3 of last years (most recent) mature pseudobulb rotted, but I was able to stop the rot from progressing beyond that point.

My question: Now that I have a partial pseudobulb with no roots and only leaf axil buds, is there any way to stimulate keiki formation from these dormant buds without causing the rot to start progressing again? I was thinking I could put it in a ziplock bag with some moist sphagnum on a warm windowsill to stimulate growth, but that seems like a recipe for rot to set back in again.

The plant flowered beautifully for me this past fall/winter, so I would like to get it to live on through a keiki if possible.