Hey Stephen! Those spikes will continue growing, even at times branch out, and bloom potentially for years and it is normal for them to interfere with the foliage at first. They will outgrow the leaves as you should have a few bloom bursts per year.
He Stephen It’s beautiful and healthy leaf’s. I wouldn’t cut the leaf because they are not like catasetum this leaf serve to plant at least few year. I might stick some support between the leaf’s to lift them up and give mire space to spike. For example the inorganic material which you are using in pet method. Worth trying before cutting 😊 After this flowers fade next flower’s will come more further like your older plant anyway. Anyway good luck with it and thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
Very nice! I can't wait to see mine bloom! 😊 I would give the spike a little time. I wouldn't cut the leaves. It will grow out from under the leaves before you know it 😂 but I understand why you want to. Have a great weekend!
I get spider mites on the Catasetums, but on the Phals it seems to always be mealybugs. If I don't check under the leaves regularly the creatures form big colonies at the base of the leaf and on the roots, and they leave chewed patches on the undersides of the leaves that get infected. (I even had one Cattleya that was setting a spike but when the sheath finally split open all the way,, it was packed with mealybugs). I've been zapping them with rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle, which helped on small outbreaks, but had to be done every couple of days, pretty much forever. I've given up and switched to a pyrethrin-based spray for the very worst cases. I had never even seen a mealybug before I got a greenhouse. Now I'm fighting 'em every day.
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Hey Stephen! Those spikes will continue growing, even at times branch out, and bloom potentially for years and it is normal for them to interfere with the foliage at first. They will outgrow the leaves as you should have a few bloom bursts per year.
Im excited for that spike to really get long! Tons of branches already.
❤ really like the Phalaenopsis tetraspis orchid. I need to add this orchid to my collection. Yours are nice . 🥰🤗
Thanks! It’s a really cool species!
He Stephen
It’s beautiful and healthy leaf’s. I wouldn’t cut the leaf because they are not like catasetum this leaf serve to plant at least few year. I might stick some support between the leaf’s to lift them up and give mire space to spike. For example the inorganic material which you are using in pet method. Worth trying before cutting 😊
After this flowers fade next flower’s will come more further like your older plant anyway. Anyway good luck with it and thanks for sharing 🙏🙏
Thanks!!
Very nice! I can't wait to see mine bloom! 😊 I would give the spike a little time. I wouldn't cut the leaves. It will grow out from under the leaves before you know it 😂 but I understand why you want to. Have a great weekend!
Too late, they got a haircut lol
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Nice update! I wonder if they will become large and spreading? Your greenhouse will be perfect for them.
I hope they spread!
I love those cute flowers❤
Thank you!
I get spider mites on the Catasetums, but on the Phals it seems to always be mealybugs. If I don't check under the leaves regularly the creatures form big colonies at the base of the leaf and on the roots, and they leave chewed patches on the undersides of the leaves that get infected. (I even had one Cattleya that was setting a spike but when the sheath finally split open all the way,, it was packed with mealybugs). I've been zapping them with rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle, which helped on small outbreaks, but had to be done every couple of days, pretty much forever. I've given up and switched to a pyrethrin-based spray for the very worst cases. I had never even seen a mealybug before I got a greenhouse. Now I'm fighting 'em every day.
Ya, they really can impact a collection! Seems like only some species or hybrids are susceptible and their neighbors can be totally left alone.
Cutting the leaves was a joke right? How about staking the spike to bend it slightly from under the leaves? They are beautiful by the way
Nope! Those leaves got a little haircut 😃
Just prop both leaves up with a chopstick with something on the ends so it won’t damage leaves
Those leaves are smaller now 😄
I ordered a speciosa blue and have looked at a few articles. I'm confused, are speciosa and tetrapsis the same or different?
They’re the same!
lol Problem solved! TY
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I’m not sure what you mean!
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@@mgpurushothama1991 I see! He’s John Finer from Ohio State University.
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