Where to cut a Paph spike

[RosieC]

Ok, it's got to that sad time when the flower is gone and I need to remove the spike from my first Paph.

I know how/where to cut them on a Phal, but I'm not sure with a Paph. The spike goes down into the leaves and I don't know how I can cut it right down where it starts.

Do I just cut arround the place it emerges from the leaves and leave the rest of it down inside the folds of leaves

[BikerDoc5968]

I wil assume this is a single bloom and not a sequential...cut t the lowes poit you can...the spike won't branch...not like phals

[RosieC]

Thanks Howard.

Yes, it's a single bloom Paph. OK, I'll cut it as low as I can. I guess that like Phals I can use cinnomon on the cut, is that right?

[BikerDoc5968]

Don't need to do asnything with the cut end paph or phal... the spike is a "one-way" kinda thing so you really don't have to be concerned about crown rot and for the paph, that growth will begin to die off within the next several months anyway.

[RosieC]

Thanks again Howard.

I've cut the spike now and I did put a bit of cinnomon on, but it seemed a lot drier inside than the Phals ones I have cut in the past so I was not certain if I needed to (I just thought it couldn't hurt). I think it had already started to dry up before I cut it off, unlike the Phal ones, which would make sence as it does not flower from it again.