Phal root growth question

[mook1178]

This is the same Phal I always ask about. It has gone through repotting and root rot since I acquired it back in November. It has tried to bloom from an old spike cut at the nursery. I cut that spike off to encourage it to grow roots. I also saw something that might be a basal keiki. The plant came with 2 crowns and when contacting the nursery, they stated it will grow more. Well that keiki turned out to be a spike and I noticed a second Spike starting on the opposite side. So again i cut the spikes to encourage root growth. Now 3 days later I see what I think cold be a root nodule. I figured it'd be a couple weeks at least.

So my question is can a spiking Phal also grow roots? I thought during flowing the plant put all energy into the flowers and any other growth went dormant.

That sucks if I just cut flowers that I could have had!!!