Update on the bud blasting - Orchid Board

greenpassion · #1 01-17-2018, 02:37 PM

Just wanted to report that the double spiked (and branching) phal that I'd posted about has decided to keep the rest of her buds, even on the side branches. (well, one of the branches had all the buds blast, and I expect that that branch will be the first to die back...?) There is another one I have that is in the same set up that reliably blooms each year for me, and it stays in bloom over 7 months. This time however one of the two spikes has lost a bud that wasn't even 'budding' yet, which will leave a gap of blooms from the bottom most flower to the middle one. Strange. Other than that, I'm going to have a ton of bloomed phals regardless!

rbarata · #2 01-17-2018, 02:41 PM

Usually bud blast occurrs when there's a dramatic environmental change, even of short duration.
If the conditions were not right at first, they would never have bloomed...but they did.
So, something happened in between...

greenpassion · #3 01-17-2018, 05:47 PM

That's the odd thing. As far as I know, absolutely nothing happened or changed with these two. No temp change, lighting change, watering or fert, and no drastic humidity changes. But what ever the cause, it seems to be fine now.

No-Pro-mwa · #4 01-17-2018, 09:55 PM

Glad the rest will be fine. I just really think they got a bit to dry at some point. This I am very sure happens to me a lot. I know that make's me sound like I don't take care well enough but in my conditions I have a very hard time keeping up. If my humidity was better it wouldn't be so bad. I also found out that keeping up with humidifiers wasn't going to work. I was not having good luck with them.

greenpassion · #5 01-17-2018, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

Glad the rest will be fine. I just really think they got a bit to dry at some point. This I am very sure happens to me a lot. I know that make's me sound like I don't take care well enough but in my conditions I have a very hard time keeping up. If my humidity was better it wouldn't be so bad. I also found out that keeping up with humidifiers wasn't going to work. I was not having good luck with them.

I agree, and can definitely identify!