Cattleya doing something strange??

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My Pot. Petitpetit Lucky is behaving very strange. I got it as a medium seedling last spring from Clouds. It was a nice healthy plant and I was pleasantly surprised to get two lovely blooms by Aug. on such a young plant. Cloud's told me several others had bloomed as well and they seemed to be real eager bloomers-suits me.

This winter it has been developing a new growth from the previous mature pseudo bulb just as many of my Catts are doing. It is several inches tall now. So I was surprised yesterday to see what looks like a bud trying to push its way thru what I thought was just one of the new bracts that form before the leaf grows. It seemed to be enclosed and a tiny crack had formed and it was trying to push thru. So I pulled it open a tiny bit more to help it get thru. I've never seen this before. I'm not 100% positive that its a bud-maybe it is a leaf all trapped and bent. But it looks like a bud. I've attached several pics that I took today. You can also see the previous mature pseudo bulb and how it grew a normal sheath and a spike from it last summer.

Has anyone else ever had this happen? It hasn't received a big dose of SuperThrive or anything like that and has been watered and fertilized the same as all the other orchids.