Never give up untill its truely dead...

[Junebug]

An orchid's will to survive is truly amazing.

Someone gave me a whole batch of severely neglected chids back in December. Among them there was one sad little plant hanging on to one sickly fading leaf. Everything else was brown and dried beyond recognition. When that last leaf dropped I was certain the plant was doomed, but I kept it anyway. For fear of shock I chose not to immediately repot, but I continued to water it sparingly. About a week later I noticed a tiny bit of green emerging from the medium. I couldn't see any bulbs and the growth looked terrestrial, like a Spathoglottis. Last week I decided to repot the tender growth and while doing so I found a 2" rotten bulb buried beneath the badly decayed medium. Now I think it might be something from the oncidium alliance, so I repotted it according to my assumption. I really don't know what I have, but it's trying to live whatever it is.