Can Buds Form in Dead, Dried Sheaths-The Answer

[OrchidSue]

The end of last summer I got a C. percivaliana that had 3 growths with sheaths. However, the plant was packed tightly in sphag. moss and was showing signs of bad roots . I debated what to do, but then it started to sprout some new roots. Even though I figured the sheaths would blast, I decided to go ahead and repot to save the plant. The plant has responded amazingly well and now has a whole new set of roots and doesn't look all wizzled up any more. Sure enough the sheaths all dried up empty . Around the beginning of January, two of the growths started putting out now pseudobulbs . Now today when I was looking at the plant, the third dried up sheath looked a little different-like something was inside . I carefully opened up the sheath and this is what I found .



Susan