I've had a lot of flowering orchids, but I've never been the one that made it happen. I've always bought them in bud or bloom. So imagine my surprise when I discover TWO spikes today while watering.
1.) Small phal I bought two years ago when I first started out. It's never been fertilized. Go figure.
2.) Spike coming off a new phal that was almost dead 2 weeks ago from soggy moss. Complete turnaround of events after I got rid of some of the moss and let it dry up a bit. Weird.
3.) The last picture is just for fun. No spike, but it does show a strange "growth" I can't identify. At first I thought it was a spike, but it's not. It's just a small set of leaves jutting out the side of the plant? Also notice the Wee Leaf, as I call it, halfway up the large leaves. Any ideas what could have caused that?
I was almost too scared to share this news because I don't want to jinx myself, but I had to tell my orchid buddies.
(Knocking on wood now!) I could have never made it to this point without my Orchid Board.
After TWO YEARS...I have spikes! And a strange growth...
don't know how you separate them though, you'll have to check out the propagation forum. 
The little leaf on the third phal is a sign that at that point in it's culture the plant was very stressed, maybe lack of water, or food or light, or something else. I had a young phal that got a bad case of mealies, and during the attack it grew a very tiny leaf. Once the problem was under control the leaves were normal sized again.
I hope it stays alive. The Wee Leaf was probably from some point this winter when I was a very, very bad orchid momma and didn't water enough. My house was SUPER dry, and I'd just moved here, so I wasn't used to it yet.
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