Rescue from Grocery store..

[LizB88]

Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I rescue this baby from being discarted from my local grocery store. The store manager knows I love orchids and save it for me instead of putting it in the trash, as they usually do when they don't sale and blooms fall out.

When I got it, the plant was extremely dehydrated, I know is an oncidium alliance, don't have the ID 9maybe can get help with that too) and it had spike twice. After a good drench and lots of TLC, It gave me a very small spike, however what I though was just a very small spike from the mature pseudobulb, but as you can see it is a very small pseudobulb growing on top out the old one. So my question is, once it finish flowering how to transplant this baby?

[butterfly_muse]

I am new to these types, I recently acquired a Beallara myself (which is what I'm pretty sure yours is; If I had to guess, I'd pick Beallara 'Tahoma Glacier': Click Here To See One!!)

I don't know if that's a keikei or if it's something that shouldn't happen. Never seen that before, but haven't had them long enough to say what that is. Good luck!

[WhiteRabbit]

Oncidium alliance do sometimes get those odd-ball little bulbs on top of the pbulb - I have one that had also spiked from them, tho the spike aborted without blooming.

Usually, spikes come from the base and side of the pbulbs, between the bract foliage and the pbulb

[LizB88]

Thanks for the reply, I guess it is just one of those things that happens.

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Thank you, it does seem to look like Beallara. I will just have to see what happens once the blooms are done. One thing is for sure, its a giver, it flowered 3 times in one season!

[palm521]

some encyclias has the same habit, could be an hybrid

encyclia prismatocarpa (although it is unlikely that this species could be found at the grocery store).

[Orchidflowerchild]

It's not a hybrid of encyclia, that is for sure. Oncidum and Cattleya alliance do not breed.

Psuedobulbs are just modified stems and all the foliar bits are just one form of leaf or another, from sheathing bracts along the flower stem and rhizome to full-on leaves. You are just seeing a plant that added a bit of extra psuedobulb space between the base of the end leaf and the one below it, not a separate plantlet. THink of an oncidium psuedobulb then think of a dendrobium pseudobulb. The leave wrap around the cane of the dendrobium and you get see all of the interstitial spaces between the growth's leaves. Basically the same happens to an Oncidium, just usually the first few leaves from the bottom are clustered together and the last one or two interstitial spaces swell and become the psuedobulb for storage of water/nutrients.

-Ceci

[palm521]

i think you misunderstood my comment ,i know they dont breed. but some species of sncyclia does have about the same pseudobulb structure as posted in the picture.

for instance it could be encyclia x encyclia hybrid,(unlikely).

[Orchidflowerchild]

It's definitely a complex oncidium alliance, but you'll find many orchids have a little bit of a process at the apex of a pseudobulb, between the leaves. For example, on a non-blooming cattleya growth you can often see a little nubbin of continued pseudobulb at the leaf axil, and often the sheaths are subtended by a little bulbous bit of stem, too.

-Ceci