Hello!

I know how you feel. It happenned to me and I decide to cut the spike and
let the plant grow another one. It took two years!

Since then, when one of my plant has a new spike, I handcuffed myself and I
don`t touch the spike until they blooms!

Claude ( still handcuffed ! )

"Bette Noir" wrote in message
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| "J Fortuna" wrote in
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| I too know and shudder at this sound, and mourn with you. Do Paph's
| regrow broken spikes like Phals do?
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| Thanks for the sympathy. So far the bud above the splint looks fine, so I
| hope it works. This is only my second rebloomed orchid (uh, I guess I
mean
| rebudded, in this case), so I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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