Something ate part of my Cyp. pletrochilum.

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I'm a bit puzzled by this. It has been raining for the past day or two so I decided to let the Cyp. get some rain.

Not long after placing the Cyp. out in the rain, something ate part of one of the growths. It just got into the growing tip of it.

Fortunately the plant had two growths and the other is intact and growing well.

The damaged one is still alive.

So then, it bears the question, what happens next. This obviously happens all the time in the wild. So now what?

How does the plant adjust to this? Does it just keep growing and still flower? Does it just stop growing and focus on putting out side shoots? Does it eventually just die back and focus on the one that is intact?

What's the plan?

I don't know what ate it, but I doubt it's a slug. I'm not focused on what ate it, as I nor anybody else would know just based off of what little information is available anyways.

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