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Spike on a recently divided phal
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Posted by eyesofthewolf 8b (My Page) on Thu, Nov 12, 09 at 21:09
First off I am REALLY excited I have a Phal that I divided Oct 2 of this year just 6 weeks ago, I thought that for the health of the plant it was time to take the full grown I guess its called a kiki from the older set of leaves that looked to be failing, This was my first attempt to divide a phal. I felt like I was doing surgery on the front line of a war zone "scissors, scalpel, alcohol, cinnamon"
up to this point I have just been hovering, leaves look good, roots ok, then tonight I saw the baby spike coming from the older set of leaves. So question for the group, should I let it spike and flower or for the health of the plant take the spike off? Its the first of the group to spike so I think it might be trama that is causing the spike, what are your thoughts? |
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RE: Spike on a recently divided phal
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| Let it spike. It knows more than you do about how much strength it has to put into the spike. IMO, the tale of stressed out phals putting up spikes is overtold. My experience with stressed out phals is that any spikes tend to stall in the nub stage. |
RE: Spike on a recently divided phal
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| Thank you, makes since I will let it do its thing. |
RE: Spike on a recently divided phal
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| Ditto what Mehitabel says. |
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