Spike photo

[Junebug]

Congratulations I wish mine would do that!

[Don Perusse]

You seem so excited with your nubbin....is this the first bloom spike for you with this plant? What's the name of your v. orchid? The vanda family are my favorites...I have 20+ and being in the southern US, good area for growing them.

[Daemos]

Excited I am This is my very first vanda so it was thumbs crossed all the time and see if I could pull it off under my horrible climate conditions.

This is a Vanda blue magic I understood from different sources this is also called vanda sansai blue. It is a thailand variant. Again from what I understood is that the thai variant has longer roots and the leafs grow in a more ordened shape. The flowers don't curl the upper two leafs as most blue magic vanda's do. Offcourse I have to see that for myself first

I still don't know if the light will blast the spike. The plant got a red tinge on the light side and I could imagine that if the spike starts growing closer and closer towards the light it will eventually get too close and burn.

[Tindomul]

Is it characterisitc of Vanda types plants to spike from the third leaf axil down?

[Daemos]

As far as I have seen, yes.

Sometimes a little bit lower sometimes a little bit higher but always one axil above the old spike.