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Old 06-17-2007, 09:22 AM
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Thats a nice plant , I hope mine will look like that some day???
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Yes Linda yer links work
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Old 06-17-2007, 10:19 AM
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The relatively 'short' leaves of your plant suggest that your plant might be a renanthera which when well-established can produce 100s of red to red-orange flowers on long inflorescences. (Renanthera hybrids are choice for cut flower trade - brightly colored, long-lasting flowers.) Your plant has lost its lower leaves, and with the exception of the keiki, what's in the basket appears to be a mass of dead roots. There are several free-flowing roots towards the top of the plant. I'd cut the main fan just below the lowest of these roots and mount or basket. Carefully separate the keiki, clean off dead root material and mount or basket it.
Whatever this turns out to be, vandas are like mermaids - they like the sun in their face (good light), the wind in their hair (air movement all the time) and gentle water lapping their feet (frequent misting, high humidity).
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Old 06-17-2007, 10:26 AM
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Let me post a pic of nothing but the orchid so you can see it with anything around it and then maybe you'll be able to tell me defiantly what to do.
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Old 06-17-2007, 10:44 AM
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http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...394/103003.jpg
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Try these and see if there of any help. I really hate to cut the baby and roots without knowing for sure I don't want to kill the poor thing.

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Old 06-17-2007, 10:48 AM
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Ok weel the first two pics didn't work so i'm resending them .
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Linda ...

Some orchids throw keikis (and roots where you least expect them) to survive. Broken, dead roots, or dessicated tissue contribute nothing positive to a plant.

I can't give a guarantee that this will work, but the attached photo shows where I'd cut if this were my plant. The area between the main fan and the keiki is dessicated. When you cut, you will see very little, if any, green tissue. Use a sterile instrument to make the cuts and seal them off (cauterize). Until the main plant re-establishes itself (new roots, new leaves), I would simply hang it, bare-root rather than basket it and treat it like a mermaid but with a little less sun than you'd normally do. And treat the keiki like the baby that it is. It has been living 'under the mother' so its new grow area should have similar conditions - no direct sun, but it still needs good air movement and humidity.

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Old 06-17-2007, 11:54 AM
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When I cut were you showed me to cut do I treat the cut area with anything after? And the way You drew the X's on the pic , should I leave the baby on the mother branch or cut it totaly off of the mother branch? Thanks for all your help!!!!

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I cauterize the cut - with alcohol and flame - hold in flame long enough to char the cut.

When you cut at Xs, you should have 1 - 1 1/2 inches of 'mother' plant on either the keiki. Let the keiki stay on the mother plant stem - this way you don't damage any of the keiki's root tips. If you decide to basket or mount the keiki, you can use the mother plant stem as 'anchors'
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Old 06-17-2007, 03:54 PM
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ok Thanks you help me alot today.
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