It has been a while since my last report on this plant.
After over three months, I am happy to report that not only this plant survived throught the summer heat, but also it is now sending up a spike!
It is a great surprise because it went through so much. I cut off way too much root mass when I repotted earlier in the spring, so it dehydrated too much. pbs look like they are completely exhausted. A few new roots that grew later dried up and died for some reasons I don't understand.
Then there was a rot and three leaves had to be cut off. In the process, hurting newly developing leaves in the center.
The growth made two more strands of root and two smaller leaves. that was it.
Those leaves are very wrinkly and bent in strange angle. I think it's because not enough water was available through little roots it had while growing those leaves, plus some scar from the surgery affecting them.
I thought about tossing the sad looking plant many times when it stopped doing anything during the heat of summer. but then I thought, ok, at least there are no spots on the leaves. let's hang on just a bit longer and see what happens.
Then once the heat wave stopped a month ago, it started to show a tiny little pb. that was a bit of surprise.
but then it also grew one spike, which is now poking above the leaf sleeve.
I guess it's up to the maturity of the plant as a whole, not necessarily the size of the growth that determines flowering capacity.
I'm very interested in seeing how the next new growth will develop. I'm dreaming a full recovery, but maybe too wishful thinking.
I will post pictures when this spike finally produce some flowers on it.
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