Oncidium Ollie Palmer keiki

[Dollythehun]

This is my Ollie Palmer. I have seen keikis on my phals, reed stem epis, and dendrobiums. I have never seen anything like this, it just broke through an existing leaf and is growing roots like mad. Can someone speak to this? I'd like to remove it when the roots get long enough.

[PaphMadMan]

Oncidium alliance plants have sympodial growth habit, like Cattleya and others that get successive new growths from near the base of a mature growth, gradually elongating the rhizome in the process. This really appears to be a fairly typical new growth of that type rather than something that would be described as a keiki, perhaps just pushed upward somewhat by crowding. If you remove it you would be holding the plant back from growing, probably delaying any chance for developing a spike, and creating a weak single growth division. It is your choice of course, but allowing the plant to grow and develop normally would probably be smarter.

[Dollythehun]

I didn't know that. If course I'll leave it but, I thought it interesting as I had not seen an Oncidium do that.