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Old 04-23-2013, 12:35 AM
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do the"old"fans ever bloom again?
I've never had one bloom twice. But mother nature can always throw out a surprise. It's the same with Cattleyas and Oncidiums and many other orchids, they bloom on mature growth and then produce a new growth that, when mature, will bloom.
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Old 04-23-2013, 06:50 AM
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I don't think they ever bloom again on old growth. The old growth should be left on tho as that is where all of the new growth will come from ,they will sometimes send out 2 or 3 new growths and could give you 2 or 3 flowers in the next blooming season....Jean
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Old 04-23-2013, 06:51 AM
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I've never had one blooming from an old fan either. Mine started its last spike last year in July and bloomed until september/october, so I expect seeing a spike again somewhere mid summer.
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Old 04-23-2013, 11:06 AM
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Thanks so much for all your replies..I have learned my 'lesson' and will wait for nature to take its course..this is such a great source of information!
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Old 04-24-2013, 02:53 AM
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I think I see a spike or the spike cover (whatever the technical term for that is) emerging in the second picture though.
You can tell by the size and the shape of it.
Almost always, newer leaf will be larger than the previous ones. When a newer leaf is smaller (you can usually tell even when the new leaf is quite small and narrower or sharper in shape, say less than one inch long), you know it is the last leaf (or spike cover whatever) and the spike will soon follow.
Sometimes, spike will emerge without this shorter than normal leaf (or cover whatever the real name is).

Your plant all look healthy though.

As someone pointed out above, some paphs will every once in a while throw a multiple growths and once this happens, you hit a jackpot because not only this means you see a few flowers at the same time, each of these multiple growths will also grow its own "baby" and throw out more growths, all of them growing at a different rate thus giving you more frequent bloom (this depends on the type. some plants even with multiple growths do not bloom more frequent but definately more flowers at each bloom season).

and yet, some plants will hardly ever make multiple growths even after years of good culture. It is just how they grow. One flower at a time.
Pleasant exceptions can take place though.
One of my maudiae alba that I like, always grew one growth at a time, but grow quite fast and bloom at least twice a year. bloom lasts for three months. can't really complain.
When old growths accumulated over time, I decided to divide it into two. I gave one away and kept the other one. This other one I kept started four new growths although it later aborted two and only grew two. still that is one step up.

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One more thought, I don't know why but sometimes mature leads will wait until other younger leads mature and then they all come into bloom together.

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Old 04-24-2013, 01:23 PM
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Upon closer inspection...I think you're right! YIPEE!!!!
again..Thanks for ALL your expert help and insight! I'm sure I'll have more newbie questions to follow....
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