Spikes and new growth are not the same in looks (I'm not sure about their
potentiality but I'd bet they're determined from the start). Spikes start a
little higher on the bulb and grow upward while new growth grows out
horizontally a ways before sending up leafy new growth. I grow mine in
cattleya light in a well drained mix in a wooden basket lightly lined with
sphagnum to hold in the mix. Flowers every year and outgrows an 8" basket
every 2-3 years.
Gary

"look for wings" wrote in message
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in article , Dewitt at
wrote on 9/6/03 10:24 PM:

It's not the easiest plant to bloom. Mine still hasn't. . .

I forgot to fertilize it one week-- or maybe it was this sudden cold rain
we
had one day--

I have a question... when a plant is triggered in to spike-- what is the
main sign-- on medusa orchids the spike look *just* like new psudo-bulbs.
Is
it that a potential new pseudo bulb just turns in to a spike-- or is it a
spike from the moment it starts?

-Susan

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