Psychopsis bud - Orchid Board

ThePinkCucumber · #1 04-09-2015, 03:04 AM

As I'm alone at home and SO excited right now, I just need to share this with you guys! I bought a psychopsis and of course as I was getting into the car with her and other 6 orchids, I managed to snap off one bud

13 days later, the amazing Bobette, as we call her, is forming a new bud! So exciting!
I didn't expect that, I transplanted her and was a bit worried having read that they can get fickle when you transplant them.

camille1585 · #2 04-09-2015, 03:20 AM

The great thing about Psychopsis is that growing a new bud like that is perfectly normal behavior for them. On large plants with multiple spikes, sometimes buds are intentionally removed from plants to get them ready for a show. If all are removed, then all the spikes start growing a new bud at the same time, so that they'll all bloom at once.

I don't know if you read this or not, but never cut a spike off a Psychopsis, once a bloom withers and falls off a new one quickly takes it's place. Spikes have been known to keep producing buds for over 10 years.

ThePinkCucumber · #3 04-09-2015, 03:24 AM

Hi Camille,
I know about the spikes - every time I go to a show I tell myself I'll only get orchids that I know, which never works out and I end up researching like a maniac when I get home. I just thought that I brought her home, changed the environment, plus repotted her, so there was no way she'd grow it right away.

camille1585 · #4 04-09-2015, 03:49 AM

Nothing seems to stop them once they have spikes! I love my Psychopsis so much, it's my favorite orchid. I keep it at work on the windowsill so I can enjoy it every day. Right now all 4 spikes are blooming

ThePinkCucumber · #5 04-09-2015, 03:54 AM

Oh I'm also completely in love! Mine is actually in our study, which happens to be my 'gym' - definitely makes me happy when I suffer through exercising

orchidsamore · #6 04-21-2015, 02:34 PM

Buds will always continue to reform and bloom.

Less know is that a stem that dries and dies at the tip or a tip that is broken, will often branch at a lower node and begin to flower again.

voyager · #7 05-03-2015, 01:11 AM

My Psychopsis is one of my favorites.
I moved it out into the yard last fall, or there abouts.
It had 2 spikes and has been blooming off them regularly.
It has a third spike growing.
Right now there are two open flowers that flutter and bob around in the breezes.
It looks like a couple of flutterbys dancing around each other.