Orchid spikes and transplatting

[ianmh]

Hi Everyone,

I have two questions. I am still new to orchids. I bought several Phals this summer all in bloom. The flowers have since fallen off. I clipped off all the spikes and didn't expect to see new ones for awhile, but to my surprise almost all of them have new spikes, one of them is already several inches long. Is this normal? I'm thinking it's because they are in my Den and it
s getting very cold at night and triggering a new bloom cycle. Also how do I clip these new spikes onto the sticks? I have sticks and clips from the old flowers, but I'm not sure when you clip them? I don't want to damage the spikes.

My other question is on Transplanting. When I bought these orchids they looked like any orchid in the shop, but now some of them are just a mass of crazy roots shooting out everywhere at the base. They look like they need bigger pots. One in particular has almost 20 roots flying out of it.

I've attached a photo of the one with lots of roots and the one with long new spikes. The one with all the roots has two small spikes and the other side of this plant has a mass of roots everywhere also.