Does keikipro or keikigrow really works and should it be used on healthy orchid?

[Roey.P.]

Thank for the helpers

[gngrhill]

I have used Keikigrow on Phals and Dens with good luck.

[RJSquirrel]

I've seen some grow clusters of keiki's off old phal spikes in water....if you google it enough you can find them..I did once

I think the biggest issue with them where they didn't grow any roots

[Roey.P.]

Thanks i Just bought keikugrow from floral laboratories at ebay. RJSquirrel I too grow many other plant famlies such as cactus, succulent and herbs which are reacting fully to water and grow roots with orchid you should have paste to make root too otherwise if the keiki didn't grow naturally he will usually give no roots😞and the extra keiki will only stress the mother plante and stop growing 😓

[voyager]

I used to use a keiki grow paste on all my favorite Dendrobiums and a few other genera too.
The reason I used it was to accelerate the growth of the orchids into specimen sized plants.
Instead of getting only one or two new growths beginning at each growing season, I could get several to start growing by treating dormant nodes at the base of existing PB's. After only 2 or 3 years of treatment, I would have a large many PB'd plant going. I am guilty of blossom greed and instant gratification. The more new PB's you've got going, the more blossoms you'll get from them, if grown well. After 3 or 4 years I needed buckets to hold a few of them. I have a new batch of keiki paste and I'm ready for the new growing season to begin.

EDIT:
OK, buckets may be an over statement. But, my Dendrobium section Dendrobiums did grow more new PB's than if not treated and I obtained larger [more PB's and blossoms] plants quicker than I would have if I had not treated them. I was not trying to treat nodes that should have produced blossoms, just dormant new growth nodes at the base of the PB's.