Three Flower Stems from one Grasshopper Bite

[dougr]

This is my first real thread and it may be encouraging for those who have had a spike disaster. My Wildcat Oncidium produced its third spike in the past twelve months. Unfortunately, a grasshopper ate over half of the newly formed bud which was about one inch long. I cut it off several days later and over the past several weeks, another spike started growing. Then another and finally a third spike. So, don't give up when disaster strikes. The first picture shows the cutoff spike with the others around it. The next two are other pictures which give more breadth. The white flower is a Cattleya with several 4 inch blooms and it also had six blooms in January of this year.