Weird growing spike on Phal.*Update*
 

The first tread is HERE



This is some weird phal....
and this is what it looks like now. :lol:

Pic 1.
You can see the spike curlig around in there.
The spike has grown thru the leaf, turned to grow into the plant, tried to bloom, before it turned around again and pointed the spike finally against the light.
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Pic 2.
The leaf the spike grew thru, seems to be in a bit of trouble.... It has turned yellow, but only on one half...
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Pic 3.
A closeup on the flower that opened outside the chid, and a closeup on the one that tried to open inside, before it finally poppet out by it selves...
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Pic 4.
The spike that made it all the way... almost... :lol:
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Ive never seen anything like this...
So, what do you think?
Will the leaf die? Will the chid survive....?

The story goes on.... :evil:
*Tam, ta-dam-dam*

WOW....that is baazar! It's a very pretty bloom though.
Joann

It may not know where it wants to go but it seems to want to bloom. I would say it is a surviror.

Very nice flower, even if it is confused, innie, outtie, leafside,:whew , outside finally. You know its hard to look that good, after all that work. :biggrin:

It'll be okay! It just looks like it bloomed from an axillary bud that was still covered by a leaf, which is unusual but does happen.. usually they come out OVER on top of the leaf as opposed to through it at the base of the leaf, but im sure stranger things have happened! You'll probably lose that leaf since it looks to have 1/2 detatched from the plant, but that's not a huge loss.

I think the leaf is a gonner as well, but the spike did not rip half the leaf of, it just pierced its way thru .
You can see that on pic 3. The leaf is still atatched on both sides of the spike.

By the way, this is the second phal in my collection this spring that grows the spike like this. On the other one i cut the spike when i realized ut was growing the wrong way, and it spiked like it was supposed too about two weeks later.

I have not done anything different this winter, and did not move the chids around... so im wondering what caused this in the first place...

Do you live near a nuclear reactor? ;)

That's really odd, but like someone else said, stranger things have happened I'm sure. The plant looks healthy beyond that strange, lost spike.

Hey Lene, thanks for the update. The blooms on yours are really lovely. The spike on mine just gave up and shriveled up. Oh well, the plant still looks just fine, new leaf coming, and lots of roots. Maybe next year.

Kim

:shock:

In that case, it has to be underground, and hidden...:evil:
So no, i dont think so :lol:

The chid looks really healthy, exept the stange spike and dying leaf, so i do belive it will pull thru.
I would have cut the spike, but since this is my second chid doing this, i wanted to see what happened next...

:whew: I bet your little 'chid sure is tired from all the exotic growing! :rofl: I have NEVER seen an orchid grow that way before! How amazing and odd at the same time. You say this is the second orchid to grow this way? Did I understand that correctly?