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Posted 3w ago by @Frebs

Shes coming back!

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5” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 day ago
WELCOME BACK LOVE!!!! WE MISSED YOU 🀩πŸ₯³ congratulations on your Keiki!! Can’t wait to see the bloom 🀩🌱✨
How do you get them to do that? Mine only do it when I get them at the store and then never again.
@Arizonasweetpea have you tried Keiki paste ?!?! @Frebs YALLLLLL THAT STUFF IS THEE CATS MEOW🀩🌱
@Frebs congrats and happy blooms 🌸🌿🌸

@Prentyce erhm... once more: where do you see a keiki? Could be, I'm looking wrong, but I don't see any. A keiki, very specifically, is an offshoot of the mother plant growing either on the base (a basal keiki) or from an already existing spike. This orchid is "only" growing a lot of beautiful roots and an even more beautiful spike with new flowers. As of yet, I can not discern any keikis.
@Prentyce I just saw that you probably couldn't have seen my earlier comment that I was referring to with the "once more" πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ since I don't know, if you will get notified if I just edit in your @ this late after the post: it was in @Xylem 's phal post. Sorry πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
@MusicalRedmint @Prentyce it did grow a lot of aerial roots, and a new leaf. Recently it grew a new stem and another new stem is starting to grow out of the original stem that I had pruned. I just added more photos that show it better.
@Arizonasweetpea I watched an instagram feed about orchids. My mom got this for me at Trader Joes and I decided to repot it. Normally Id toss it after the flowers fell off because I didnt know (anything) that they will rebloom. After the last bud falls you count three nodes below and then cut it above the node. Then ignore it.
Continue watering according to the schedule. But I havent done anything to it. I didnt buy keki paste or do a deep dive because I was in peak plant frenzy (1 plant to 35 kind of commitment) There are plenty of tips from seasoned orchid people. Im just excited for it bloom again.
Again, congrats. And it's so big already. I expect your bloom pictures in due time πŸ˜‰
@Arizonasweetpea you could check if they get everything they need from you first, and if that's covered, check if they get the drop in temperature.
They are notoriously slow growers, so if you've had them for less than a year, no second bloom in that amount of time would just be par for the course for them.
If you've had them for longer, check if they are healthy (plump (i.e. hydrated) leaves, no pests or other signs of stress) think back if you've fertilized semi-regularly with an appropriate (orchid) fertilizer. If that is covered, it is almost always either light or temperature. Phals placed in too little light might grow reasonably well but will not necessarily bloom. Be careful not to burn it. No direct light. Medium to high indirect light is great.
As for temperature: an absolute requirement for most phals to bloom is a slight drop in (relative) temperature. Most get this naturally when outside temperatures drop. If they are close to a window pane or when even inside temperatures drop in autumn after a hot summer in non- climate controlled houses. If you have them further from the windows and have the ac set to a constant temperature you could try moving it for 1-2 weeks to a cooler spot/room. Even only over night should do the trick if all the other parameters are set for blooms πŸ˜‰ good luck.
Mine don’t have those. They did when I got them but I foolishly@cut them off when they started to turn brown. Now I just have the big leaves at the bottom
It's not a problem if you cut the spikes, @Arizonasweetpea. I even deliberately do it more often than not. In those cases the phal will grow a new spike to flower from (or two, or three πŸ˜‰ ) if the right conditions are met (see my comment above).