First Spike!

[reinbo15]

I know this picture is absolutely terrible, but I just had to show this because I'm so excited! This Phal. Brother Apollo is one of my "Trashie" orchids... that is, it got thrown away at work, and I rescued it. This guy had an awful case of scale and had flowers on it when I obtained it, but I cut off the spikes and worked on making it a happy plant again. That was maybe two months ago, and at first I wasn't sure what to think of it. It's leaf span is about 24 inches, but it lost two of it's eight leaves and I was afraid it didn't like me. Amazingly, it's spiking! My first EVER spiking orchid! I will definitely show photos when it's gets big enough to see clearly and in a couple months if it's still happy with me and makes some flowers!