Cattleya hybrid lost its only new growth…

[greenhouseFrog]

Up until this year, I’ve never grown anything Cattleya-related in general. Since February, I bought a couple of bag babies from the hardware store over the course of a couple months, but I wanted to have something a little more curated than the leftovers on the Better-Gro rack. I recently obtained 6 Cattleya hybrids from SVO(first time buyer) and they blew me away upon unpacking; they dwarfed the bag babies! While unpacking, I found that one plant(my favorite of the bunch, a Lc. Mini Purple ‘Coerulea’ 4N x Lc. Blue Design’Huge Blue’) had its only new growth break off but otherwise the rest of the plant seems like it is doing fine.

Digging around Orchid Board, I found a thread(in Advanced Discussion) where some seasoned vets had mentioned cutting new growth on Cattleyas(and other genera) to generate new leads; do you think that my plant may be able to put out another growth along those lines or does that “pruning” apply to larger, more established plants? Could this damage have been too much too soon for this plant or will we survive with just some set backs?

If it helps any, I’ve included a photo of the plant in question.

Thanks again!

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