After a couple of years effort, I think I've got a bloom stalk starting on
my four-year-old phaelenopsis. It looks much like an "air root" but is
coming out of the plant through a leaf up higher on the stalk.

Do you think??? Or is it just another air root.

If it's really going to bloom, I owe it to the use of an orchid fertilizer
(30-10-10) recommended by a local green thumb.

On 2006-01-06 13:58:35 -0500, Robert Salmon said:

After a couple of years effort, I think I've got a bloom stalk starting
on my four-year-old phaelenopsis. It looks much like an "air root"
but is coming out of the plant through a leaf up higher on the stalk.
Do you think??? Or is it just another air root.

If it's really going to bloom, I owe it to the use of an orchid
fertilizer (30-10-10) recommended by a local green thumb.


What does it look like? Gray with a green tip? If so i's a root. If not
congrats!

I find these to be real hard to get to bloom. I've yet to get my 3 year
old one to bloom. My 3 year old dendrobium is finally setting a bloom
spike.

Tom

"Robert Salmon" wrote in message
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After a couple of years effort, I think I've got a bloom stalk starting on
my four-year-old phaelenopsis. It looks much like an "air root" but is
coming out of the plant through a leaf up higher on the stalk.

Do you think??? Or is it just another air root.



It *is* that time of year!
All of mine are in spike as well.


--
Toni
South Florida USA
Zone 10b
http://ww.cearbhaill.com

Tom Randy wrote in news:2006010705431375249%
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What does it look like? Gray with a green tip? If so i's a root. If not
congrats!

Tom


It appears all green to me and is almost an inch long now, still pointing
up, but prevented from growing down by lying along the central spine of a
leaf. I'm starting to have my doubts about it being a bloom stalk.

Robert Salmon ÃÑÓáÊ:
After a couple of years effort, I think I've got a bloom stalk starting on
my four-year-old phaelenopsis. It looks much like an "air root" but is
coming out of the plant through a leaf up higher on the stalk.

Do you think??? Or is it just another air root.

If it's really going to bloom, I owe it to the use of an orchid fertilizer
(30-10-10) recommended by a local green thumb.