keiki paste surprise

[Phyrex]

I rescued this NOID plant from a store when it was out of bloom on Sep/27/2008. I tried to take care of it but after it put up a spike the buds blasted due to underwatering and it got infected with something. This was around Dec 2009 so it had already been nurtured for a year. I decided to chop off the infected areas leaving the plant with less than 1 proper leaf. I figured it might not make it so I applied some keiki paste to the unused nodes to see what would happen. Here's the result. It has bloomed from a branch and I can see a leaf coming from the tangled mutated mess; proving once again that these phals are hardy buggers. She sure is a keeper. If she makes it that is.

[jrodpad]

Phyrex -

Sorry for the noobie question, but what is keiki paste? Does it work for phals only or is it a general orchid compound? Is this a commercial product or some home brew concoction?

What a reward for your stewardship of this NOID. Your determination paid off - great bloom.

- J

[This Side of Paradise]

Richard,

are you using Plant Hormones Canada 's keiki paste?

[Phyrex]

J:
It's some sort of hormone paste you can put on unbloomed nodes (mostly on phals) to try and coax them to branch or put out a keiki. I've only used it on this plant so it's pretty new for me too. Try searching for Bikerdoc's posts, he's been using it for a while already and has quite a bit of success. I think it's mostly used al phals though I'm sure people have used it on ther genera too.

That's the one cyberloach.

[jrodpad]

Thanks Phyrex,

I'm going to do some digging around for this one...

-J

[Phyrex]

I'm not sure what to do as now that I know what it is I want her to recover and put some nice blooms out later. Should I cut off all the spikes and junk that's growing now or should I just sit back and see what will happen?