Why did this happen?

[Plodde]

Hello! i hope everyone and their 'chids are doing well!

I have a Den. kingianum and it is doing the oddest thing.

I've had it for 2 years. Bought it in flower and haven't been able to get it to bloom since. It grows and grows and grows, new canes, new keikis...
...But this keiki seems to be doing something different.
Here comes the something odd..

The Keiki is growing long roots as you can see from the pictures. but the mother cane that the keiki is attached is starting to grow what appears to be a root out of one of the nodes.
Why does this happen? if i broke off the keiki now there would be a single root growing out of one of the flower nodes on the mother cane...


anyone know why this happens?

[WhiteRabbit]

I think that's a keiki root that is growing through the leaf base.

Of course, I've learned not to be too surprised by things that Dens do (especially Kingianum) - so if it is a root growing from the node, I would simply say it's because it felt like it

[silken]

It may be a keiki root or if you were watering those roots so the keiki would stay healthy, it just may have stimulated the node to grow a root. You can cut canes and lay them down and they root to start a new plant, so its not impossible to see roots, although I never have before on an upright growing cane. I think the nodes have cells that are more ready to do something so this time it was a root!

As for blooming, I give mine a cooler, dryer (not bone dry) winter with good light and it blooms every year. Sometimes better than other times.