NYCorchidman, I just meant if they are not clearly buds and just nubs on the cane, I have been told they can go either way, bud or keiki. And they will be keikis if you start watering and feeding again and stop chilling them. Once they are clearly buds, they are buds.
Ok, now that is clearer.
I still call them spikes however short they are on nobile hybrids.