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DEND spike puzzle
My Dendrobium orchid dropped its last flower and I barely could make out
the spike..its so small. That is about a week ago. Since then i watered the plant and noticed healthy looking roots, now almost coming over the pot. BUT, when i looked at the spike, hoping to see some sign of growing, its doing the opposite. It looks like its shriveling almost to nothing. Healthy roots, poor spike. BTW, in this same pot there are about 3 more growths of stalks? One is pale color and hard as a 'rock' and the others are green and healthy looking. What are they? Suckers? |
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Hi, Anthony,
If I'm reading you right, you now have a bare spike. New flowers will not grow on that spike, so it's safe to cut it off, using a sterile tool (single edged razor blades are fine; discard after using on a plant). That differs from Phalaenopsis, on which it is possible, though not always recommended, to encourage new blooms on a spike which has lost its flowers. No. Wait. Are you talking about a spike, or a cane? Spikes grow from the canes of a Dendrobium. Canes, which are the plant's pseudobulbs, grow from the plant's rhizome. So, this "spike": is it growing from the base of the plant, basically out of the medium? Or is it growing off of the existing cane? Don't cut anything until we get the terminology down. The "stalks" you mention, unless something else is growing in the pot, are other canes growing from the rhizome. Even if one is hard as a rock, it can produce a spike. Any possibility that you can take a couple of pictures of this plant and post them at alt.binaries.pictures.orchids? Diana |
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