Just a minor correction to your interesting post, Vanda actually has the capability of sending out a new root where it previously bloomed on the same node...
Some other alternatives to induce Vandaceous genera growth is to slightly knick a small hole at the adnations of the nodes, where it will usually kick out a new growth... to induce root growth, you can air layer around the base of the Vandaceous plant, or scrape the old sheaths off, and locate the "dormant" roots, which have not come out of the stem, and look like small circles... make a small mark on top of it, and it will kick out "another" root on top of that one inside the plant... just some other alternatives to play around with, if you get a near death Vandaceous plant... =)
-PM
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