I thought we could post some pictures of our spikes/buds here, if you're interested.
Here are three of the Paphs I have in bud at the moment:
Paph. venustum:
Paph. callosum var. sublaeve's first bud, which also looks like it could be a double flower (this is unfortunately a stress blooming about to happen, which is why the fans are immature):
Second bud (it looks huge, but it isn't, it's just the fan being ridiculously small):
Paph. cerveranum (my first Paph which has already bloomed once this year), it's apparently a bit tricky, so the probability of it blasting is quite high:
In spike/bud
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