On 12/04/2014 19:31, sacha wrote:
I'm delighted to see that catch me unawares, one of my Phalaenopsis has
put out a new stem with several buds on it. It's sprouted from where
the old stem was cut back and it has been sitting on a kitchen window
sill, facing west and theoretically, in a room that is much too warm.
But maybe the steam in a kitchen has made it happy, though I would have
thought the Aga sort of wiped that theory out too! The last one I had
in the same spot has been flowering since before Christmas and is still
going strong. Admittedly, these are the easiest to grow (I'm told) but
I haven't potted them on, bar one and they get watered once a week, if
that, with water straight from the tap. I picked this one up to water
it today and suddenly noticed the new stem with about 6 buds on it -
nul points for observant!

Last August some friends visited and brought a Phalaenopsis as a gift.
It had three flowering stems on it. After 8 months in bloom, the last
flower is just about to fall off, but many weeks ago new flowering stems
appeared on each of the old stems. A new flower is just about to open
on one of them.

I have heard of new flowering stems appearing where an old stem was cut
back (although this has not worked on previous Phalaenopsis I have tried
it on), but this plant was left untouched.

The plant lives on a north-facing bathroom window; the temperature
varies between about 15 and 20°C.

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Jeff