"dirt dibbler" wrote
I have a few orchids with flowering spikes, but what i thought was an
off-shoot near the top of one of the spikes, has turned out to have a
couple
of small leaves.
This is the first time i have had this happen, is this small crown
something
that can be removed at some stage to give a second plant, or do they just
have high leaves occasionally?


Phalaenopsis do occasionally produce new plantlets instead of more flowers
on an old flower spike, they have a name, Keikis.
It will gradually grow into another plant, roots and all. As soon as it's
big enough you can separate it and grown it on in it's own pot or on it's
own piece of mossy bark, which ever method you use.
It's another reason never to cut off a Phal flower spike until it turns
brown and is obviously dead.

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Regards
Bob
in Runnymede, 17miles west of London, UK