Catt. and Phrag New Growth Questions
 

I've only been at this a few months, so I don't fully understand a full year's growth cycle on my plants. I have a couple questions about the new growth I'm seeing.

I picked up a variety of blooming plants in February, all of which have now finished blooming. My Phrag. Besseae had six blooms total, with the last one falling off this morning.

Without blooms to gawk over, I started enjoying the various new growth on my plants, but I don't really have any idea what I'm seeing. :)

The first pic is of the base of a Catt. hybrid I picked up. The second is on my just-finished-blooming phrag.

1. Is the Catt. growth the start of a new pseudobulb?
2. Is the Phrag. growth just the start of new foliage?

Thanks.

The Catt has a new growth started. Quite normal. But WOW! I have never seen a basel spike on a Paph or Phrag before. I believe you have a new flower spike under way.

Yes the Catt is sending out a new pbulb. The Phrag......holy cow!!! Never seen anything like that before. I think Ross is right. That's a new flower spike I think. :shock:

Now that Phrag does look interesting. Never seen something like this.

Surely that must be a rhizome??????

I'm glad eveyone else finds it as interesting as I do...
 

It emerges from just above soil level, it curves upward, and there aren't any trailing growths underneath it--nothing hairy or fibrous coming out underneath. Nothing about it seems very root/rhizome/stolon-like to me, which I guess is why I find it so puzzling.

I love this place. . .and the mystery continues to unfold.

Whatever, you did, fyschebone, keep doing it. And then tell us how to do it too!

It appears to me to be a rhizome. I don't think it starts to put down roots until the fan of new foliage is forming, so you wouldn't see any roots on it yet.

Great growing!!