[AThoele]

This weekend my husband and I went to Home Depot to buy a few things to continue our attempt to save our phals suffering from root rot and ended up coming home with two more phals! That's three new orchids in the past week! I didn't believe you all when you said orchids were addicting, but apparently we've been sucked in. At least my husband seems to be interested in it as well. He blamed it on me, but he's the one who went over to the orchid section and started pulling plants out! Anyway, I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of our new additions.

I have a couple of questions as well:

One of the plants has several spikes off of the same main spike, a couple of which have no more blooms. Should I cut these off or wait until it finishes blooming and cut the entire spike off at once? Also, how do you end up with several branches off the same spike? Is there something I can do to encourage this in the future?

Also, another has two different spikes at the same time. Does this happen often? Is there a way to encourage this?

Sorry for the long message! I'm such a newbie and really want to learn from all of your experience. You've all been so helpful so far!