keiki paste and vandas

[smweaver]

Does anyone know whether the keiki paste (rooting/growth hormone) that's commonly used for phalaenopsis will also work on vandas? My V. merrillii has at least ten keikis growing around it, and although a few of them are definitely approaching flowering size, all of them seem quite content to remain freeloaders in life and not develop any roots of their own. I would like to try something (anything!) to get the keikis to start rooting so that some of them can eventually be detached from the long-suffering mother plant (okay, she doesn't really appear to be suffering, but I have a sneaky feeling that she might be inclined to be more productive with her flowers if she didn't have all of the cursed keikis cropping up). Does anyone have any ideas that might help? Thanks!

Steve